by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
What can teachers do to shift learning responsibilities to learners? Teachers may be observing the phenomenon wherein students become less engaged in the learning process. Certainly this can occur in environments with a rigid curriculum. Without intervention, this... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
Team building games offer students fun opportunities to hone critical skills for success in the modern workplace. Students (and future employees!) that value teamwork are more motivated and creative. They’re also better at problem solving and communicating with... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
Your classroom is your temple of learning, and within its walls sage classroom wisdom abounds. In this haven, your young pupils learn the paths of critical thinking and lifelong learning. Here they attain the skills that serve them faithfully long after they’ve... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
Question stems are more than just for leading to answers—they are the pathways to developing exceptional critical thiking skills. When we ask an essential question to our learners, we also incorporate “herding” questions throughout the journey. These are... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
How would you like to become a better critical thinker? Would you like the same for your studemts? Sure you would—we all want these things. However, how we go about it needs to be more of a discipline than a mere goal. Lifelong learning is made possible by being a... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
Educational technology, or edtech, has revolutionized the classroom by improving learning efficiency and efficacy. Used wisely, edtech strategies help students develop vital critical thinking skills, and can change the paradigms of education. Here are eight specific... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
Editor’s note: This is an updated version of the original article featuring critical thinking tools aligned with the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Fostering critical thinking skills is always a challenge in teaching. Educators still honor Bloom’s Taxonomy as... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
Developing critical thinking skills turns lessons from a mere relaying of facts into a conversation by which students begin to understand their world. The phrase “don’t play games with me” is about to get a turnover. Play games all you want—your... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
If you want to improve critical thinking, it takes practice but it’s actually easy. Just get a simple system to refer back to and you can’t go wrong. Luckily, that’s exactly what you’ll discover in this terrific TED Ed lesson created... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
For the past few weeks, you have felt great about yourself as a teacher. Last year, you lectured to your students in class after class. Most of your students seemed uninterested and almost never volunteered to say anything when you tried to start a class...