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Putting It Into Practice Developing Student Critical Thinking Skills In Teacher Education: The Models, Methods, Experiences And Results, Paula Jones, Debbie Haydon Dec 2011

Putting It Into Practice Developing Student Critical Thinking Skills In Teacher Education: The Models, Methods, Experiences And Results, Paula Jones, Debbie Haydon

Paula Jones

Most teachers would agree that they teach reasoning skills in their classes. However, are they explicitly incorporating strategies that teach students to think critically? If so, how do they know these methods are effective? The purpose of this book is to summarize and share a variety of methods for developing students’ critical thinking skills. Each chapter focuses on a select teacher education class where the instructor implemented components of the Paul and Elder Model of Critical Thinking.

Written from the instructor’s point of view, each chapter details how each instructor utilized components of the Paul and Elder Model to support …