The dimensions of critical thinking and tips for teaching them

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A competent and efficient teacher, who himself is used to thinking independently, searching, and talks with logic or is used to thinking or analysis, this type of teacher can create these all abilities in his students to whom we are saying critical thinking. Actually there are many domains of critical thinking which we can express differently. In the following we will give such tips to teachers and mention dimensions through which teachers can create critical thinking in their students:

Create the ability of problem solving:

 Critical thinking lets students do analysis of complex problems, lets students test different point of views and makes them able to find an effective solution. This ability is invaluable because it lets students face with challenges and give power to students to face the problems in the real life.

1.   Include problem solving exercises in the lessons, for example open-ended questions, brain-storming sessions and group discussions.

2.   Motivate students to suggest answers to multiple questions and test their advantages and disadvantages.

Try to increase the ability of decision making.

Critical thinking helps students to take a decision on informed based on careful analysis and assessment. It makes students able to focus on different point of views, to guess the results and helps students to make the most appropriate decision.

Develop analytical thinking:

Critical thinking nurtures the analytical thinking, lets students to test the information, helps them to identify the samples and makes them able to draw rational conclusions. It lets students ask questions, to test the evidences and encourages critical thinking about doing things right and wrong.

1.   Include children in the work of analysis of data, statistics, or include them in such works in which they have to do interpretation.

2.   Motivate them that they think like drawing conclusions about statistics and then support their results with proof.