Critical Thinking
Analytical Skills
A hands-on, interactive approach to critical thinking. The participants will learn key componenets of critical thinking and then immediately practice these principles of this newly acquired knowledge. Edward De Bono's Six Thinking Hats curriculum will be utilized in addition to a series of hands-on, interactive activities specific to Critical Thinking.
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Critical Thinking
Six Steps to Effective Thinking and Problem-Solving
IDEALS
Identify the problem. What s the real question we re facing here?
Define the context. What are the facts and circumstances that frame this problem?
Enumerate choices. What are our most plausible three or four options?
Analyze options. What is our best course of action, all things considered?
List reasons explicitly. Let s be clear: Why we are making this particular choice?
Self-correct. Okay, let s look at it again. What did we miss?
5 What s and a Why
In a seminal study on critical thinking and education in 1941, Edward Glaser defines critical thinking as follows The ability to think critically, as conceived in this volume, involves three things: 1 (1) an attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one's experiences, (2) knowledge of the methods of logical inquiry and reasoning, and (3) some skill in applying those methods. Critical thinking calls for a persistent effort to examine any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusions to which it tends. It also generally requires ability to recognize problems, to find workable means for meeting those problems, to gather and marshal pertinent information, to recognize unstated assumptions and values, to comprehend and use language with accuracy, clarity, and discrimination, to interpret data, to appraise evidence and evaluate arguments, to recognize the existence (or non-existence) of logical relationships between propositions, to draw warranted conclusions and generalizations, to put to test the conclusions and generalizations at which one arrives, to reconstruct one's patterns of beliefs on the basis of wider experience, and to render accurate judgments about specific things and qualities in everyday life.
IDEALS
Identify the problem. What s the real question we re facing here?
Define the context. What are the facts and circumstances that frame this problem?
Enumerate choices. What are our most plausible three or four options?
Analyze options. What is our best course of action, all things considered?
List reasons explicitly. Let s be clear: Why we are making this particular choice?
Self-correct. Okay, let s look at it again. What did we miss?
5 What s and a Why
In a seminal study on critical thinking and education in 1941, Edward Glaser defines critical thinking as follows The ability to think critically, as conceived in this volume, involves three things: 1 (1) an attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one's experiences, (2) knowledge of the methods of logical inquiry and reasoning, and (3) some skill in applying those methods. Critical thinking calls for a persistent effort to examine any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusions to which it tends. It also generally requires ability to recognize problems, to find workable means for meeting those problems, to gather and marshal pertinent information, to recognize unstated assumptions and values, to comprehend and use language with accuracy, clarity, and discrimination, to interpret data, to appraise evidence and evaluate arguments, to recognize the existence (or non-existence) of logical relationships between propositions, to draw warranted conclusions and generalizations, to put to test the conclusions and generalizations at which one arrives, to reconstruct one's patterns of beliefs on the basis of wider experience, and to render accurate judgments about specific things and qualities in everyday life.
About The Training Provider: TeamBuilding Blocks
TeamBuilding Blocks - Our unique, hands-on, interactive approach to employee development distinguishes us from other training companies. With the traditional classroom lecture style of training much of what your employee hears is forgotten within a week. Our approach assures permanent recall of the key concepts and lessons for future application in the workplace. All of our training is guaranteed to improve employee...
