Title: How to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking Skills - Graduate Programs for Educators
Headings: How to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
How to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
Kelly Muic
What are Critical Thinking Skills?
Why are Critical Thinking Skills Important for Students?
How to Improve Critical Thinking Skills in Students
Instructional Strategies
Student Relationships
Rigor in the Classroom
Student Engagement
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Content: Why are Critical Thinking Skills Important for Students? Our lives are full of events that involve non-stop problem solving and decision making. We are inundated with information from various media outlets and social media platforms. What is the best car to buy? Who should I vote for? People need to know how to sift through all this information and decide what are reliable and credible sources of information to use in their daily lives. And we want to be able to do this in a thoughtful and logical manner. Critical thinking enables us to analyze, interpret, reflect, evaluate, infer, and explain information to be able to solve problems and make decisions. That is why critical thinking is an essential component of deeper learning. Deeper learning can be described as the capacity for learning how to learn (Martinez & McGrath, 2014).