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Engaging your Students in Critical Thinking: List of Steps

To learn more about each step, click on the title of each step or use the links below to navigate the guide (previous and next). If you need assistance at any stage of your course design and development, the Center for Instructional Design and Development (CIDD) staff are available to assist you. Please call 202-994-0485 for more information.

Consider the following steps in your course design to encourage students to engage in critical thinking:

1. Familiarize yourself with the principles of critical thinking
2. Incorporate critical thinking objectives in your course
3. Identify the strategies for students to carry out the critical thinking activities
4. Develop critical thinking writing activities
5. Identify supporting strategies to aid/coach students in critical thinking

Following are some web resources that may be of help to you before and during the course design and development process:

• Teaching critical thinking - this website (by the Composition Center, Dartmouth College) provides information on developing critical thinking through writing.
• Critical Thinking Consortium - this website includes events, resources, a library, and professional development opportunities related to critical thinking.
• Dan Kurland's www.criticalreading.com - this website provides information on the fundamentals of critical reading and effective writing.
  

 

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