P1246341505oDFAR

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The Objectives
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Critical and Creative Thinking

• Learning to think critically and act creatively
  is a lifelong skill with broad applications both
  inside and outside the language classroom.

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Critical Thinking

• The cognitive process of using reasoning skills
  to question and analyze the accuracy and worth of
  ideas, statements, new information, etc.

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Creative Thinking

• New, alternative ways of looking at things that
  would be different from the expected.

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The Objectives
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Creative and Critical Language Learners

• The creative language learners should be able to
• combine responses or ideas in novel ways, and to
  use elaborate, and thinking patterns.
• As for the critical language learners, they must
  be able to
• carefully determine to accept, reject identify
  their opinions and answers, correct themselves
  and others' methods and procedures.

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Higher Order Thinking SkillsHOTS
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Blooms Taxonomy
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Teachers responsibilities
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• Regard Ss as empty vessels
• Ignore Ss individuality/unique experiences
• Lead a boring un-imaginative classroom
• Ss feel left out
• Lead to make passive learners
• Listen to Ss opinions/beliefs
• Develop a mutual relationship
• Consider Ss as individuals who are equals
• Involve respect
• Be a guider, facilitator, encourager.

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Critical and Creative Thinking Activities
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Critical and Creative Thinking Activities

• Role-plays
• Skits (short dramatic performance)
• Simulation (to pretend a set of events)
• Team discussion (reflective-exploratory-inquiry
  based)
• Optical Illusions
• Thinking Exercises

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• -These activities can be combined with integrated
  skills, authentic materials and communicative
  approach.
• - Critical and Creative thinking skills should be
  mingled with the curriculum and not be separated
  from it.

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Thinking Exercise

• A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks,
  trousers, coat, gloves and ski mask. He is
  walking down a black street with all the street
  lamps off.
• A black car is coming towards him with its light
  off but somehow manages to stop in time.
• How did the driver see the man?

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Optical Illusion
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