Critical Thinking: Designing Instructional Strategies to Promote Critical Thought
3-Part Workshop ~ All sessions are 1:00-2:30pm EDT.
Part 1: Wednesday, September 29
Part 2: Tuesday, October 5
Part 3: Tuesday, October 12
Overview
Critical thinking is a concept that is widely used and has high visibility in the accreditation and mission
statements of educational institutions across the world. However, many educators and institutions have difficulty
clarifying the concept and knowing how to infuse it within curriculum and instruction. This three part workshop
focuses on explicating those concepts and principles that inform a foundational, cross-disciplinary conception of
critical thinking as well as how these fundamentals translate into concrete teaching and learning strategies that,
when done well, help our students improve the quality of their thinking.
Session Titles & Descriptions
Part 1: Introduction to Foundational Critical Thinking Concepts and Principles
In this first segment, participants will be introduced to a robust, cross-disciplinary conception of critical thinking.
We will discuss what critical thinking is and explore how it can be substantively infused into our content areas
and instructional contexts. It will be argued that critical thinking is not something that is merely added to our
existing curriculum and workload, but should be the way we teach and learn. When critical thinking is treated as
the organizing idea of teaching and learning substantive understanding will naturally result.
Part 2: Question Generating Concepts
This session will focus on the relationship between our ability to question and our ability to think critically.
Participants will explore various ways to help students develop questions that analyze and evaluate content and
their thinking.
Part 3: Focus on Instructional Strategies that Promote Critical Thought
This session will build on the foundational critical thinking concepts and principles addressed in the first session.
In doing so, participants will explore the intimate relationship between what it means to think critically and how
we can design instruction to promote critical thought. Based on best practices in teaching and learning,
participants will engage and discuss specific instructional strategies designed to foster critical thought and the
cultivation of higher order thinking skills.
Who is the speaker?
Dr. Enoch Hale is a Fellow at the Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking. With over a decade of teaching
experience, Dr. Hale brings a wealth of experience to the workshop setting. Recognizing the importance of
placing critical thinking at the heart of instruction early on in his teaching career, Dr. Hale took an incremental
but systematic approach to bringing critical thinking theory and practice into his courses.
He holds a B.A. degree in intellectual and social history, a Masters degree in liberal arts and sciences, a
secondary single subject credential in social science, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis on
critical thinking and educational reform. His research interests involve identifying practical methods for teaching
students to identify and work through complex interdisciplinary issues and problems as well as studying how
teachers learn.
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Critical Thinking: Designing Instructional Strategies to Promote Critical Thought
3-Part Workshop ~ All sessions are 1:00-2:30pm EDT.
Part 1: Wednesday, September 29
Part 2: Tuesday, October 5
Part 3: Tuesday, October 12
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