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Keeping students in control of their thoughts and emotions allow them to be focused and critically think - See KR

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Team building and team-centric skills are critical to nearly all endeavors, very important to all students regardless of future plans

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Students need the time within the classroom to converse, evaluate, and question daily.  Critical thinking is a life skill.

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Students need the time within the classroom to converse, evaluate, and question daily.  Critical thinking is a life skill.

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Common Core shift to real world & hands-on methods is engaging for our students

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Common Core shift to real world & hands-on methods is engaging for our students

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Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

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Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

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Simplifying a complex scientific idea:  having this skill is a good determiner as to the depth of knowledge a student has and what they have learned.  Critical Thinking will allow students to question the work of others and determine the validity of the information they share.

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Simplifying a complex scientific idea:  having this skill is a good determiner as to the depth of knowledge a student has and what they have learned.  Critical Thinking will allow students to question the work of others and determine the validity of the information they share.

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Common Core Math helps students solve real world problems with critical thinking skills.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

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Critical thinking tied to CC teaching practices helps achieve higher levels of DOK 

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Critical thinking tied to CC teaching practices helps achieve higher levels of DOK 

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Critical thinking skills possessed by students transcend other inequities in the learning environment - students are able to synthesize and interpret the information they receive regardless of disadvantages or variances in complexity.

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Critical thinking builds resilience and problem solving skills that are useful in and out of the classroom.

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Critical thinking builds resilience and problem solving skills that are useful in and out of the classroom.

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Allows students to understand topics/issues/texts on a different level and process that information in a new and original way

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Allows students to understand topics/issues/texts on a different level and process that information in a new and original way

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By teaching students how to "interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text" (Reading 4) students will be able to apply those skills to the world around them... hopefully seeing it as a "text" to interpret for themselves... critically.

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By teaching students how to "interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text" (Reading 4) students will be able to apply those skills to the world around them... hopefully seeing it as a "text" to interpret for themselves... critically.

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Allowing students access to multiple forms of information to enhance their learning experience and support their development of deeper understanding of content/information.

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By teaching critical thinking skills, students will be exposed to experiences different from their own. It will allow them to develop empathy and compassion.

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By teaching critical thinking skills, students will be exposed to experiences different from their own. It will allow them to develop empathy and compassion.

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Provides a deeper understanding of subjects and helps to develop vocabulary.

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Provides a deeper understanding of subjects and helps to develop vocabulary.

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Students are engaged in asking and answering questions as they are collaboratively working on learning

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By using critical thinking it allow students to understand and comprehend and ask questions.

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By using critical thinking it allow students to understand and comprehend and ask questions.

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Thinking critically allows students to have a deeper understanding of concepts and therefore are able to problem solve in a world inundated with too much information.

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Thinking critically allows students to have a deeper understanding of concepts and therefore are able to problem solve in a world inundated with too much information.

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We are not teaching them the content, but how to think, which is a transferable skill

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We are not teaching them the content, but how to think, which is a transferable skill

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When we create a  classroom where students from different backgrounds can communicate their different experiences and perspectives, it encourages  students to think in more complex ways.

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When we create a  classroom where students from different backgrounds can communicate their different experiences and perspectives, it encourages  students to think in more complex ways.

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All students have access to sharing their thoughts and experiences, using evidence to support.

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Teaching students to think critically requires teachers to think critically about the lessons that they plan and execute - sounds a bit redundant, yes, but something to think about, critically.

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Teaching students to think critically requires teachers to think critically about the lessons that they plan and execute - sounds a bit redundant, yes, but something to think about, critically.

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Teaching kids critical thinking can give them tools to come up with the different solutions to a problem.

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Teaching kids critical thinking can give them tools to come up with the different solutions to a problem.

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Because not all students are getting access to critical thinking skills at home, if we don't teach those skills intentionally in the classroom, many will be left behind. 

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Because not all students are getting access to critical thinking skills at home, if we don't teach those skills intentionally in the classroom, many will be left behind. 

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Collaboration
Creativity
Critical thinking
Communication
(and Coolness!)

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I believe that if we begin to engage students in meaningful conversations and  activities using 21st century skills, we will truly prepare them for the brighter futures.

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When you teach students critical thinking skills you teach them important skills to research information and look for biases. Equality is the use of the skill, not in the material the student is accessing.

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Not sure we can be equitable if we can't demonstrate a unifying critical thinking should be. 

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Not sure we can be equitable if we can't demonstrate a unifying critical thinking should be. 

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Discussion still comes from commonalities.

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Use Hyperdocs to encourage higher level critical thinking.

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Use Hyperdocs to encourage higher level critical thinking.

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Critical thinking helps students to see that no one, not even the teacher or "star" students in the class, are always right or have perfect knowledge. Empowers all students to make sense of and take ownership of knowledge.

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determine
explain
prove
demonstrate
analyze
compare & contrast

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Define what Critical Thinking in the classroom should look like. My guess....multiple variations will be expressed. 

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Define what Critical Thinking in the classroom should look like. My guess....multiple variations will be expressed. 

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Teaching kids to think critically gives students the tools and opportunities to critique and analyze the world around them, not just passively consuming.

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Teaching kids to think critically gives students the tools and opportunities to critique and analyze the world around them, not just passively consuming.