Download or read book The Role of Teacher Feedback in Promoting the Use of Critical Thinking Skills in a Religious Education Classroom written by Hina Amirali and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Thinking and the Academic Study of Religion written by Richard Penaskovic and published by South Florida Studies in the H. This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally Published by Scholars Press Now Available from Duke University Press This work responds to a renewed emphasis on teaching in the academy. Written from the perspective of a classroom teacher, it is a practical application of the principles behind the critical thinking movement to the study of religion. Emphasizing that the acquisition of critical thinking depends less on what is taught than on how it is taught, the author presents concrete examples from his own experience to illustrate a student-centered approach to teaching. By demonstrating how the study of religion contributes to the development of critical thinking--through the acquistion of problem-solving, decision-making, and metacognitive skills--Penaskovic suggests its value to a broader liberal arts curriculum as well. Both a theoretical view of critical thinking and a nuts-and-bolts manual on how it can be used and assessed in the classroom, this work will challenge new and veteran teachers alike to reexamine and renew what the do in the classroom.
Download or read book Putting it into Practice written by Paula Jones and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 students in the development of their critical thinking skills. Importantly, each instructor's use of the model varied and those variations are shared in detail. Chapter authors found that utilizing components of the Paul and Elder Model resulted in more consistent use of critical thinking skills by students within their teacher education classes. In this practice-based book, interested teachers will be challenged to think through the methods they currently use in their own classes and will be provided new ideas or strategies to try.
Download or read book Critical Thinking and Formative Assessments written by Todd Stanley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop your students' critical thinking skills and prepare them to perform competitively in the classroom, on state tests, and beyond. In this book, Moore and Stanley show you how to effectively instruct your students to think on higher levels, and how to assess their progress. As states implement the Common Core State Standards, teachers have been called upon to provide higher levels of rigor in their classrooms. Moore and Stanley demonstrate critical thinking as a key approach to accomplishing this goal. They explore the benefits of critical thinking and provide the tools you need to develop and monitor critical thinking skills in the classroom. Topics include: The Difference Between Higher-Level and Lower-Level Thinking Writing Higher-Level Thinking Questions Assessing Critical Thinking Strategies to Develop Higher-Level Thinking Skills
Download or read book Thinking Through Religious Education written by Baumfield, Viv and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Through Religious Education is developed and written by practicing teachers. Its practical strategies with numerous exemplars enable teachers throughout the secondary school to create exciting, memorable and challenging RE lessons A teacher resource, it addresses both the teaching and learning of RE and ways in which teachers can promote effective learning. The quote from the pupil above is not an isolated example of such a mature response after being in a teaching thinking classroom. One pupil wrote in her log just because someone has a different idea doesn't make either of us wrong.Thinking Through Religious Education helps the teacher to: *encourage a wide range of ideas in the classroom *give pupils confidence to express their own ideas, value the opinion of others, evaluate arguments and exercise good judgement *focus on helping pupils know how as well as know what *concentrate on how pupils learn *create exciting lessons underpinned by robust theory *provide stimulation for pupils across a wide range of ability *include a broad range of ideas from different religious traditions *be increasingly flexible and adaptable in their approach to teaching *cover the five thinking skills as set out in the National Curriculum *make links across subjects, particularly with citizenship *enjoy lessons as pupils become better motivated Thinking Through Religious Education aims to provide examples of an approach to teaching and learning in the classroom that is flexible and can be adapted to suit any Agreed Syllabus. The principles on which these activities are based enable pupils to explore ideas and question what they mean for the people who hold them and what they may mean for themselves.To be effective, careful choices need to made about when, where and how to use the strategies. The teacher needs to actively plan for their use to ensure that the application is appropriate to the aims of the lesson. Think about them as another tool in the toolbox of a good RE teacher and not simply as an off the shelf set of work sheets.
Download or read book The Effective Teaching of Religious Education written by Brenda Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Effective Teaching of Religious Education provides an accessible yet intellectually rigorous resource for all those involved in the teaching of RE in schools today. Written with the needs of specialist and non-specialist teachers in mind, in both the primary and secondary sectors, it successfully integrates theory and practice, encouraging debate and reflection on a broad range of issues in what is often regarded as a complex and often controversial subject area. The second edition has been written with the collaboration of a new co-author, Penny Thompson and has been thoroughly updated, revised and extended to include: A new chapter on the place of Christianity in RE New material on the purpose of RE and on the relationship of RE to other subjects A new Appendix on tackling assessment and syllabus requirements A new companion website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/watson-thompson including an overview of the use of ICT in RE teaching, web links and practical resources for use in the classroom.
Download or read book Teaching Critical Thinking in the Context of Political Rhetoric written by Joseph Sanacore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past several decades, there has been a blitz of information, sometimes referred to as the knowledge explosion, and students have struggled in their attempts to distinguish true, fake, and terribly biased information, especially regarding political issues. This book highlights the value of critical thinking as a way to navigate this difficult and frustrating terrain, so that students grow and develop as knowledgeable, independent thinkers. To promote this growth, the book offers thoughtful, evidence-based advice for teachers to support students’ deep thinking as it relates to real-world contexts. Strategies presented include student reflection based on experience, moving from narrow to broader perspectives, and using graphic organizers to build and activate knowledge before, during, and after instructional activities. With the instructional guidance and activities presented in this short, easy-to-apply volume, teachers can give students the tools they need to negotiate the often-murky waters of political communication.
Download or read book Religious Education from a Critical Realist Perspective written by Johnny C. Go and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the possibility and necessity of critical thinking in religious education through the lenses of critical realism and the Christian doctrine of sensus fidei (‘sense of faith’). Drawing on Bhaskar’s original critical realism and data from a survey of over a thousand teachers in the Philippines, the author argues for a view of critical thinking based on components of ‘disposition’ and ‘competence’. As such, critical thinking becomes the expression of a commitment to judgemental rationality and, in a Christian religious education, is guided by the individual’s sensus fidei. A philosophical and theological discussion of the process of coming to know in the religious domain, Religious Education from a Critical Realist Perspective also offers concrete recommendations on how to promote the practice of religious critical thinking in confessional religious education classrooms. As such, it will appeal to scholars of philosophy, theology and pedagogy with interests in religious education and curriculum development.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching Controversial Issues written by Nel Noddings and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings and daughter Laurie Brooks explain how teachers can foster critical thinking through the exploration of controversial issues. The emphasis is on the use of critical thinking to understand and collaborate, not simply to win arguments. The authors describe how critical thinking that encourages dialogue across the school disciplines and across social/economic classes prepares students for participation in democracy. They offer specific, concrete strategies for addressing a variety of issues related to authority, religion, gender, race, media, sports, entertainment, class and poverty, capitalism and socialism, and equality and justice. The goal is to develop individuals who can examine their own beliefs, those of their own and other groups, and those of their nation, and can do so with respect and understanding for others values. Book Features: Underscores the necessity of moral commitment in the use of critical thinking. Offers assistance for handling controversial issues that many teachers find unsettling. Proposes a way for students and teachers to work together across the disciplines. “Brooks and Noddings offer a timely and inspirational guide for teaching critical thinking in American schools. With deep roots in American philosophy and traditions, this book inspires us to teach students to question authority while fostering meaningful conversations about the difficult issues confronting our nation. This book offers a recipe for nurturing the next generation of caring and critical democratic citizens.” —Andrew Fiala, professor, California State University, Fresno “Chock-full of contemporary and historical examples, this book offers educators myriad examples of how to help students learn to talk with and listen to others and to understand the fullness of our collective humanity.” —Suzanne M. Wilson, University of Connecticut
Download or read book Teaching Critical Thinking written by Laura Billings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help students meet today’s literacy demands with this new book from Terry Roberts and Laura Billings. The authors show how a seminar approach can lead students deeper into a text and improve their speaking, listening, and writing skills, as recommended by the Common Core State Standards. Roberts and Billings provide easy-to-follow information on implementing Paideia Seminars, in which students discuss a text and ask open-ended questions about it. When teachers use this lesson format, students are exposed to a wide range of increasingly complex texts. They also learn how to collaborate, talk about, and reflect on what they’re reading, to make meaning independently and together. Seminars can be done in English class and across the curriculum, using social studies documents or math problems as the texts under discussion. Teaching Critical Thinking also offers an array of practical resources: teacher lesson plans student samples a list of possible ideas and values for discussion a guide to asking good questions during a seminar six full seminar plans (including the texts), covering literature, social studies, and science topics
Download or read book Using Feedback to Improve Learning written by Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite feedback‘s demonstratively positive effects on student performance, research on the specific components of successful feedback practice is in short supply. In Using Feedback to Improve Learning, Ruiz-Primo and Brookhart offer critical characteristics of feedback strategies to affirm classroom feedback’s positive effect on student learning. The book provides pre- and in-service teachers as well as educational researchers with empirically supported techniques for using feedback as a part of formative assessment in the classroom.
Download or read book Compass Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People 2012 edition fully revised and updated written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights cannot be defended by legal measures alone. They need to be protected and safeguarded by everyone, including young people. Human rights are best respected and appreciated when we know them, stand up for them and apply them in our lives.COMPASS provides youth leaders, teachers and facilitators of human rights education activities, whether professionals or volunteers, with concrete ideas and practical activities to engage, involve and motivate young people in living, learning and acting for human rights. It promotes a comprehensive perspective on human rights education and sees young people as actors for a culture of universal human rights.COMPASS was originally published in 2002 and is now available in more than 30 languages. A version specifically designed for human rights education with children - COMPASITO - enjoys a similar success. This fully revised and updated edition includes new activities and information about human rights issues such as disability and disablism, migration, religion, remembrance, war and terrorism.COMPASS is a practical tool and resource for citizenship and human rights education. It is an essential companion for all those who are curious and interested in making the right to human rights education a reality for everyone.
Download or read book Engaging Critical Thinking written by Cedrick Valrie and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students in Christian university classrooms across North America largely lack the valuable skill of critical thinking. Such a skill can often appear as a daunting and lofty task that is reserved for scholars or those with a high IQ. Both faculty and students may feel uncertain of what it is, thereby avoiding it altogether. The primary intent of this dissertation study is to explore and explain critical thinking concepts that faculty can use to help their students improve their thinking about academics and about life. This study is secondarily designed to address the institution’s role in encouraging this process. It presents a workable definition of critical thinking that is useful in the undergraduate classroom and across the disciplines for enhancing student and faculty engagement during their time of dialogue and interaction as a learning community. It explains the process of critical thinking and seeks to awaken the desire to practice it regularly, both inside and outside of the classroom. Ultimately, critical thinking is intended to be a learned life skill that students will implement for a lifetime. Chapter one provides a survey of some of the primary historical influences of the critical thinking movement in higher education in the United States. It features Stephen Brookfield’s process of critical thinking and targets the initial step and life skill of identifying one’s assumptions in order to examine their validity. Chapter two explains critical thinking in light of interpreting ideas, particularly those found in Scripture. It employs the use of layered thinking through the hermeneutical process and discusses a select number of biblical passages. Chapter three moves on to identify barriers that prevent students from thinking critically thinking and expresses the value of university professors working to create buy-in by communicating a vision for its use and exploring its advantages. Chapter four then offers examples of critical thinking exercises for students to use in the classroom so that they can engage in both learning and doing. Lastly, chapter five reveals critical thinking at work in society by exploring past and present efforts toward social change. It sheds light on the challenging variables that can be involved when seeking to implement an informed action plan.
Download or read book Promoting Rigor Through Higher Level Questioning written by Todd Stanley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting Rigor Through Higher Level Questioning equips teachers with effective questioning strategies and:
Download or read book Encountering Faith in the Classroom written by Miriam R. Diamond and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When faculty unexpectedly encounter students’ religious ideologies in the classroom, they may respond with apprehension, frustration, dread, or concern. Instructors may view this exchange as a confrontation that threatens the very heart of empirical study, and worry that this will lead to a dead-end in the learning process.The purpose of this book is to explore what happens—and what can happen—in the higher education, and even secondary school, classroom when course content meets or collides with students' religious beliefs. It also considers the impact on learning in an environment where students may feel threatened, angry, misunderstood, or in which they feel their convictions are being discredited,This is a resource that offers ways of conceptualizing, engaging with, and responding to, student beliefs. This book is divided into three sections: student views on the role of religion in the classroom; general guidelines for responding to or actively engaging religious beliefs in courses (such as legal and diversity considerations); and specific examples from a number of disciplines (including the sciences, social sciences, humanities and professional education). Professors from public, private, and religious institutions share their findings and insights.The resounding lessons of this book are the importance of creating a learning space in which students can express their beliefs, dissonance, and emotions constructively, without fear of retribution; and of establishing ground rules of respectful discussion for this process to be valuable and productive. This is an inspirational and practical guide for faculty navigating the controversial, sensitive—yet illuminating—lessons that can be learned when religion takes a seat in the classroom.
Download or read book Critical Thinking Now written by Nancy Burkhalter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s curricula can (and should) incorporate critical thinking methods because they are the means by which people best understand, learn, and retain higher level concepts. Contrary to what many professional trainers assume, teaching critical thinking is not achieved by shoveling facts at an audience through lecturing or multiple choice testing. It requires sustained, finely tuned teaching and assessment methods. This book lays out a blueprint to do just that. Specifically, it outlines the necessary components of a critical thinking classroom and provides assessment techniques and ample exercises adaptable to any student’s field, age, or level of education. Often not considered are those learners schooled in a non-Western culture and not proficient in the presenter’s language. These audiences can create invisible barriers to instruction. Without understanding these pitfalls, trainers invite frustration and failure, and risk wasting everyone’s time and money because they were unaware any problem existed. The book addresses these linguistic, cultural, and cognitive obstacles and suggests several solutions, whether you teach these students on your home turf or theirs.
