10 SIMPLE THOUGHTS FOR THINKROOMS

THINK THOUGHTS

Critical thinking is an essential 21st century skill.  To develop them in classrooms, following are some simple thoughts

Prompts: 

Provide pictures or statements and ask students to describe the situations or promote story telling

Cartoons:

Political, Satirical cartoons provide immense insight and thought development.

Abstract:

Abstract thinking gives connection and correlation between disciplines and art.  Giving artistic pieces and allowing description builds this type of thinking.

Connectors:

This helps in building concept and grammar interaction between languages and subjects.  Provide key words and inform students to build connecting sentences or passages.

Puzzles and Riddles:

The earliest and most common way of developing analytical and logical thinking.

Interviews:

Bring in a famous personality or role play a famous personality and set an interview with them in classrooms.  Allow students to do basic research and interact with the guest.

Debate:

On the spot or prepared debates gives more insight to arguments which promote thinking.

My feet your shoe:

Putting one in  others shoe and thinking about both situations and emotions.  This helps in building social responsibility and empathy.

Reporting:

Sports commentary or school event commentary, incident or news reporting can be promoted to develop spontaneous thinking among students