A critical thinker identifies and evaluates evidence to guide decision making through broad and in-depth analysis of evidence to clearly communicate beliefs. Teachers can improve students' critical thinking by questioning students, structuring the classroom to encourage critical thinking, responding thoughtfully to students, and modeling critical thinking behaviors.

2. Critical thinking is identifying and evaluating evidence to guide decision making. A critical thinker uses broad in-depth analysis of evidence to make decisions and communicate his/her beliefs clearly and accurately.

8. The Three Story Intellect There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three story men idealize, imagine, predict……their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

9. Skinny vs. Fat High Consensus vs. Low Consensus Review vs. True

10. FAT Plural TRUE Invitational Low Consensus Relevant to Learner

14. We need to move towards a knowledge generating society. The ability to think critically & creatively and to reason logically constitute the template for building a society that will be able to not just adopt or adapt borrowed knowledge but that which will be able to create & market its own knowledge. (Ratnavadivel, 2001)

15. Students don’t come by this naturally

17. Tools to Teach Critical Thinking