What methods do you use to encourage creativity and critical thinking among your students?
Please feel free to share the strategies and activities you employ to stimulate students' interest and promote critical thinking.
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The K - W - L teaching strategy is a simple method that can be used to promote critical thinking. K means what you know W means what you want to know L means what you have learnt. The teacher will create a chart/ table, using each letter as a heading. He or will match students responses to instruction given with the respective headings. This strategy can be used with any given class activity.
Hi Personally I use pics I mean involving them in description or I give them just the beginning of a story and they have to continue it up Best Regards
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Asking open ended questions and also talk about topics they find interesting, so that they can collaborative. In order to promote critical thinking skills. I ask them what they would do in a given situation,write tests
I like to start lessons with a photograph or two for a warm up. I'll ask students what they think is happening, and use follow up questions to get them to use their imaginations or get more reaction about it. It helps the students loosen up a bit and can be fun to learn more about them.
I prefer to use business, economic, international business, legal, technical engineering and other NYTimes, CNN, USA Today articles to stimulate critical thinking from the strategies used in the articles. I would love the chance to discuss this with you in greater detail.
Open ended question, group discussion, and debating.
Group discussions and quizzes
Discussion about different subjects.
You'd find that creativity is best done whilst doing what you love doing the most. I encourage my students to create a poster of themselves, using keywords and images allowing the class to get to know who they are. This opens their minds, allows freedom of creative arts and the ability to be who they really are.
Open questions on random topics!
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