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beginning thinker; we try to improve but without regular practice.

"Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or down-right prejudiced. Yet the quality of our life and that of what we produce, make, or build depends precisely on the quality of our thought. Shoddy thinking is costly, both in money and in quality of life. Excellence in thought, however, must be systematically cultivated." (Richard Paul and Linda Elder)

方法很重要

critical and creative thinking

critical thinking

judgement

ananlysis

criticise

try to understand a subject,thinking about it 

critically analyse

thinking strategically

evidence

context and culture

ambiguities and alternatives

boundaries and limitations

different perspectives

strengths and weaknesses

why criticl thinking?

1.a simple reason (Paul and Elder)

must be systematically cultivated

2. Two personal benifits

critical thinking contributes to sucess in students' academec studies.

critical thinking contributes  to career success.(portable skill)

3 more reasons

the limitation of Chines culture.

Linguistic creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people’, ‘Creativity is both special and normal and is both ordinary and extraordinary. It is extraordinary in its ordinariness.’ Creativity is endemic in everyday discourse’, seen in jokes, puns, language play, multiple meanings, metaphors, idioms, and allusions.

Paul and Elder

教学实践：研究型学习策略——在反思中学习

• 每周撰写反思周记
• 阶段性反思回馈
• 口头报告录像反思
• 同伴研究预案、报告、录像反馈及反思

case 1

the historian and his fact

unit 6 / book 4

历史事实是绝对客观的吗？

fact?

write a 200-word passage to describe 

我的实践：研究型学习策略（research—based learning）——在绘画中学习、在合作中学习（learning through drawing）

Critical thingking training should be an essential part of education from kindergarten to university and beyond. We strongly encourage the development of critical thinking and creativity in English classrooms in China. These are complementary in English practice: to generate alternative views and ideas then to evaluate them and apply them in real life.

课时8 Concepts and Definition of CT

Outline:

* Concepts and definitons of CT

* Some English vocabulary associated with CT activities

* A proposed Critica l Thinking Process

it is a good way to assign every one in the group to do the report in order to get the stronger learner to help the weaker one, but what if they always ask the stronger one to prepare the report and others just read out his outcome every time, how does the teacher prevent this kind of problem and make sure it is really every one that contributes the presentation?

what if when students examine the evidence, the discussion comes into dead end without their awareness, what should teacher guide them?

critical thinking的6个方面的重点

1. interpretation: comprehend和express理解事件/能够说出来paraphrase

2. analysis: identify找出推理关系 outline

3. evaluation：credibility和logical strength合理性与逻辑性，演讲中评价不够。写作的三段式，每段内部的逻辑性大家都不在意

4. inference：conjectures, hypotheses我们自己作为论述者的推理能力，收集证据获取资料进一步提出假设

5. explanation:我们自己作为论述者的解释能力，让学生上台做presentation

6. self-regulation: self-examination, self correction能运用于自己的思维和写作。找不到自己的问题，不能理解自己的问题在哪儿，不能修改自己的问题。