Making Students Think
How to develop creativity and critical thinking in the class
Help New Faculty Implement Strategies
These strategies for developing creativity and critical thinking will help teachers get students to think deeper
Developing Critical Thinking Skills
*Questions
*Suggestions
*Positive Feedback
*Connection
*Discussion
Critical Thinking
Questions and Suggestions
Teachers should ask students if they have any questions about the lesson, resources given or materials given. Teachers should get students to think higher by giving them suggestions on ways to think.
Positive Feedback and Connections
Deliver questions, suggestions, facts and ideas in a positive way. The way the teacher delivers content keeps students engaged. The facts and ideas need to content to something
Discussion
Create a whole group discussion on what the students think and thought. Give the students a chance to deliberate on the lesson by exchanging thoughts with other classmates.
Developing Creativity
Problem Solving, Synthesis, Encouragment, Arrangement of Classroom, Meaningful Mistakes, Open-Ended Questions
Creativity is the root of problem solving. In life and at school. If teachers help students develop creative knowledge, they will be equipped to handle the real world.
Synthesis requires students to put words they have learned together to show what they have learned during a lesson.
Arrangement of classroom requires teachers to create a space where students are required to problem solve, and make meaningful mistakes.
Meaningful mistakes allow students to develop creativity because students are required to use their synthesis words and problem solve.
Open-ended questions create the pathway for creativity and critical thinking.