Resources
Child centred learning and teaching approaches in Myanmar
A report by Marie Lall (2010) aimed at supporting education providers and practitioners in identifying and sharing child centred education best practice and helping the identification of core competency based standards, so that CCA can be effectively...
Report on Higher Education Dialogue in Burma
On behalf of the National Network for Education Reform (NNER) Burma, our colleagues from the Thinking Classroom Foundation have engaged in a substantive dialogue with the Ministry of Education and the Parliamentary Education Committee...
Lesson plans for developing critical thinking skills
A collection of lesson plans developed by RWCT teachers from around the world Mathematics, 7th grade (students aged 13) - by Ariana-Stanca Vacaretu, Romania Literature - contributed by Critical Thinking International- Lesson plan 1, Lesson plan 2...
Critical Thinking: The Burmese Traditional Culture of Education
Critical Thinking: The Burmese Traditional Culture of Education, Thein Lwin (28 May 2010) Abstract Buddhist monastery schools are the second largest education institutions in Burma. A senior monk has suggested that critical thinking strategies...
Integration of Critical Thinking Principles into the Curriculum of Secondary Schools - Lithuania
General education standards of Lithuania emphasize importance of critical thinking and problem–solving ability. Educational experience encourages searching for such training methods that help the pupil to feel meaning of learning. General...
The Teaching of Writing in the Czech Republic
In this article, Zuzana Šaffková argues that the tradition of rhetoric instruction in the Czech Republic influences current practice in teaching writing, and that there is need for change in the area if teachers are to cease merely teaching about writing...
Research - Application of critical thinking approach in the education system
Application of critical thinking approach in the education system - its influence and efficiency in Latvia is a research which was designed and implemented by the Education Development Center and the Baltic Institute of Social Sciences with the financial...
Kosova Education Center: Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking – Final Evaluation Report
In-service professional development with the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking (RWCT) training began in Kosova in October 2000, as an initiative of the Open Society Institute (OSI) and the International Reading Association (IRA). The purpose of...
The 2000-2001 Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project Impact and Institutionalization Study
Produced for the Open Society Institute (OSI) by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in 2001, the study examines cross-national similarities and differences in the implementation of the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking (RWCT) project in...
The 2000-2001 Evaluation of the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project
In 2000, the Open Society Institute (OSI) commissioned the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to conduct an evaluation of the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking (RWCT) project and find answers to the following research questions: 1. To what...
Classrooms of Wonder and Wisdom
Jeannie Steele and Kurt Meredith, the authors of "Classrooms of Wonder and Wisdom. Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking for the 21st Century", are delighted to share this text with RWCT colleagues around the world. As we narrate in the opening...
Promoting authentic assessment in the Romanian in-service teacher training system
The Romanian RWCT Association published, within the Promoting authentic assessment in the Romanian in-service teacher training system Project (for more information please visit www.alsdgc.ro), the following materials: Analysis of the current...
Teaching and Learning Strategies for the Thinking Classroom
Teaching and Learning Strategies for the Thinking Classroom (Alan Crawford, Wendy Saul, Samuel Mathews, and James Makinster. 2005) Teaching and Learning Strategies for the Thinking Classroom offers best practices of teaching - for comprehension....
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