Critical+Thinking

//This page contains ideas and activities for learning about critical thinking in the world language classroom.//toc

=**Today's Objectives:**=


 * Students will identify effective critical thinking and problem-solving activities for Spanish teachers.

=**Guiding Questions:**=


 * What do world language professionals mean by the terms //culturally authentic materials// and //critical thinking//?
 * How might Spanish teachers locate culturally authentic materials that foster critical thinking?
 * How might Spanish teachers use culturally authentic materials and activities that encourage critical thinking to develop students' language proficiency?

=**Today's Agenda:**=


 * Critical Thinking Presentation (Cognition at the Core)
 * Bloom's Taxonomy
 * [|The Value of an Image Search] (Multiple Representations)
 * [|Bloom's Taxonomy - The OLD Pyramid]
 * [|Changes to Bloom's Taxonomy (2001)]
 * [|Revised Bloom's Taxonomy]
 * [|Bloom's Taxonomy - Verbs]
 * [|Bloom's Taxonomy & Technology Tools]
 * Logic Problems
 * [|Cats]
 * [|Erasers]
 * [|Conversar sin parar]
 * [|Four Corners]
 * [|Human Graphing]
 * [|Human Graphing Variations]
 * [|Shifting Perspective (Julian Beever)]

=Sample Lessons That Integrate Critical Thinking:=

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