Facilitating complex thinking – Educational Psychology
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In fostering critical thinking, a teacher is really fostering a student’s ability to construct or control his or her own thinking and to avoid being controlled by ideas unreflectively.
Not only is it the teachers’ job to evaluate students’ learning of particular ideas or skills, but also they have to do so within restricted time limits of a course or a school year. In spite of these constraints, though, creativity still can be encouraged in classrooms at least some of the time
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A better choice for a cooperative task is one that clearly requires a diversity of skills, what some educators call a rich group work task
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