Developing critical thinking skills

By David Read2022-12-20T06:59:00

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Use real-world context to help your students adopt a holistic problem-solving approach

Using socio-scientific issues to develop critical thinking helps bring the real world into your classroom and will motivate and engage your students. Discover how a US study adopted a five-task strategy to help students develop a full range of critical thinking skills. You can read about how you can incorporate similar strategies to foster and develop these skills in your chemistry students.

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