CRITICAL THINKING--
On this page, you will be displaying and reflecting on work that demonstrates your skills and/or growth as a critical thinker, as someone who analyzes, questions, makes connections between ideas, and considers ideas from multiple angles.
To do this, you can pull from your Daybook entries, Draft Excerpts, Notes, Blog entries etc.
Choosing work:
Consider what it means to be a critical thinker. Make sure you understand what critical thinking is so that you can identify it in your work. Avoid choosing entries just because you had to "think about it really hard" or "had to come up with an opinion." Consider something specific you had to do with that piece and try to pinpoint how that is an example of critical thinking and why it was challenging.
Think back to the Daybook entry you chose for critical thinking at the individual conference. Does this display a particular aspect of critical thinking? Is it the strongest example of critical thinking in your Daybook? Remember that many Daybook entries, Class activities, Assignments, and Blog entries can show critical thinking in a number of different ways. It depends on what you want to show... try to get some variety.
Reflecting on critical thinking pieces:
On this page, you will be displaying and reflecting on work that demonstrates your skills and/or growth as a critical thinker, as someone who analyzes, questions, makes connections between ideas, and considers ideas from multiple angles.
To do this, you can pull from your Daybook entries, Draft Excerpts, Notes, Blog entries etc.
Choosing work:
Consider what it means to be a critical thinker. Make sure you understand what critical thinking is so that you can identify it in your work. Avoid choosing entries just because you had to "think about it really hard" or "had to come up with an opinion." Consider something specific you had to do with that piece and try to pinpoint how that is an example of critical thinking and why it was challenging.
Think back to the Daybook entry you chose for critical thinking at the individual conference. Does this display a particular aspect of critical thinking? Is it the strongest example of critical thinking in your Daybook? Remember that many Daybook entries, Class activities, Assignments, and Blog entries can show critical thinking in a number of different ways. It depends on what you want to show... try to get some variety.
Reflecting on critical thinking pieces:
- Discuss how you selected your work and why you made certain selections (Daybook entries, process pieces, etc.)
- Identify and explain the aspect of critical thinking you were engaging in... questioning, analyzing, connecting, evaluating, considering multiple perspectives/angles, etc.
- Provide specific references and examples from your work or from the reading
- Provide ideas about the trajectory (growth) of your thinking since then
- Provide ideas for how you might expand on these ideas now