Critical and Creative Thinking

Edublog shows the best webtools available to help teachers

Prompts to help students develop questions (from Kagan Cooperative Learning).

A guide to help teachers use Socratic questioning techniques in their classroom

On this page, under the "Tools for Critical Thinking" heading are links to downloads to support teachers to implement Socratic circles.

Free articles explaining principle's behind Kagan's approach to cooperative learning.

In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward.

This is a useful resource for students

Here you will find 58 graphic organizers. They are PDFs. You will need an Adobe Reader to view and print them. If you do not have a Reader, you may download one here for free. Note: Some of the graphic organizers may be filled out (and then printed).

VisibleThinking In Action Every committed educator wants better learning and more thoughtful students. Visible Thinking is a way of helping to achieve that without a separate 'thinking skills' course or fixed lessons. Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time.

Print them out or fill in and complete your project on the exploratree website