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While Critical thinking was the main theme of the module, i enjoyed the tools described to improve critical thinking
Employees need to have good critical thinking skills to be successful in the workplace. Real life application and connections help learners improve these skills. IDEALS was an awesome tool presented to work on problem solving.
This module revealed the importance of encouraging critical thinking in a learning environment. Students will be regularly presented new information and required to show understanding. As an instructor, it is my responsibility to use different tools to help students learn to think critically.
Critical thinking and peer to peer are important for making the right decision for the now and the future. Also a lot more hands on and drawings for the classroom to help grasp the concept of what we are teaching.
At this reflection point in the course, I am gravitating towards the IDEALS framework as a teaching strategy for building/strengthening critical thinking skills in my students. I serve as faculty and program chair for a community college early childhood education program, and am tasked with designing program components that marry the art of science of career readiness for our graduates while respecting that many of our students "after the fact"...that is to say that they have been working in early childhood prior to enrolling in our program. IDEALS might be a great way to meet my students where they are at as they build knowledge in the field and learn how to use it more effectively.
Critical thinking is a skill that should be valued in the classroom, in the workforce, and in the everyday life of the student. Encouraging students to share their points of view and to have discussions on content will help them learn to articulate their points and to see beyond their own limited scope. A large part of this is learning how to ask good questions and to be open-minded when hearing responses.
This course has been a great source of information. I love how it has broken down the key point and given clear and concessive examples to implement. As a welding instructor it is so critical for my students to have strong critical thinking skills, the ability to implement them and the confidence to utilize this skill for their own safety and the safety of others. I am so looking forward to utilizing the “What I Know,” “What I Want to Know,” and “What I Learned.” in the classroom at the start of each new training Modula. I am also going to start implementing this with my own children. I'm a very big critical thinker and until now I did not realize how much of my workday when I was activity in the field performing welding applications was actual critical thinking.
Students do this often for their personal lives and captalizing on this might make them more aware of how often they already do this. Bringing it to the classroom with this relevance may make them more motivated to use it with classroom topics of career readiness.
Working in cte I think softskills are very important to teach students because it is something that can easily be overlooked.
In summary, students that are good in critical thinking tend to be more successful in job environment.
Critical Thinking enhances the students sound judgements, which is very important component for students that will be taking the NCLEX-RN exams.
I learned ways to encourage critical thinking in the classroom, and how critical thinking is useful in our lives.
Using a brain break question in between concepts helps the student to pause and apply the new knowledge
By improving their critical thinking skills, students will not only be more desirable candidates for employment, but they will also be empowered with confidence and versatility.
Proper communication is one factor that is very important. Also the k-W-L charts is great.
Communication and critical thinking are two things that we cant teach too much. The workplace is full of problems and opportunities for people to problem solve and have workplace rediness.