Beliefs Critical Thinking Skills 
k12 Digest
MAY 28, 2025
With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Teach students to think like entrepreneurs with these skill sets. Since the publication of his highly impactful book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century , Thomas Friedman has been teaching his readers and listeners to think differently about our world and how we interact with each other.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
Critical thinking is a tremendously important skill. But, it turns out, teaching this skill is no easy task. The most recent results of the Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus (CLA+) test—a standardized testing initiative designed to measure college students’ critical thinking skills—are not encouraging.
k12 Digest
MAY 28, 2025
There was no fanfarejust a vision, a small classroom, and a deep belief in what girls could achieve when given the right environment to grow. Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
It is a commonly-held belief that algebraic concepts are directly related to critical thinking skills. So, what is the disconnect? We have hovered our proverbial mouse over the 21st century now for two decades. Yet, our education system and structure had shown little to no trace of modernization.
Edsurge
MARCH 7, 2018
Few would challenge the value of helping students develop critical thinking and information literacy. But if such skills are encouraged simply as a reactionary means to challenge knowledge, says danah boyd, the future may look even more chaotic and grim. To be clear, boyd doesn’t believe that critical thinking is inherently bad.
Faculty Focus
MAY 21, 2023
To do it right, our teaching toolbox needs to include critical thinking. When we encounter new information, critical thinking helps us evaluate the value and relevance of that information. Done well, critical thinking helps us make connections between our existing values, new content, and future goals.
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