And for something in the way of specific training for staff, there’s always Professional

Development on Critical Thinking provided by TeachThought.

25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching Critical Thinking

1. The TeachThought Taxonomy for Understanding, a taxonomy of thinking tasks broken
up into 6 categories, with 6 tasks per category
2. A Collection Of Research On Critical Thinking by criticalthinking.org
3. It’s difficult to create a collection of critical thinking resources without talking about
failures in thinking, so here’s A Logical Fallacies Primer in PowerPoint format.
4. The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Test (it’s not free, but you can check out some
samples here)
5. 6 Hats Thinking, a model for divergent thinking.
6. 4 Strategies for Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy
7. An Intro To Critical Thinking, a 10-minute video from wireless philosophy that takes
given premises, and walks the viewer through valid and erroneous conclusions
8. Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers by Terry Heick
9. A Printable Flip Chart For Critical Thinking Questions (probably easier to buy one for a
few bucks, but there it is nonetheless)
11. A Collection Of Bloom’s Taxonomy Posters
12. 6 Facets of Understanding by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
13. A 3D Model of Bloom’s Taxonomy
14. Helping Students Ask Better Questions
14. Examples Of Socratic Seminar-Style Questions (including stems) from
changingminds.org
15. 20 Questions To Guide Inquiry-Based Learning, a 4-step process to guide learning
through inquiry and thought
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16. Socratic Seminar Guidelines by Grant Wiggins

17. How To Bring Socratic Seminars Into Your Classroom, a 7-minute video by the Teaching
Channel
18. How To Teach With The Socratic Seminar Paideia Style, a PDF document by the Paideia
that overviews
19. Using The QFT Model To Guide Inquiry & Thought
20. Create Debate, a website that hosts, well, debates
21. Intelligence Squared, Oxford-style debate hosted by NPR–and in podcast format, too
22. 60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves by Terry Heick
23. A Rubric To Assess Critical Thinking (they have several free rubrics, but you have to
register for a free account to gain access)
24. 25 Critical Thinking Apps For Extended Student Thought
25. Debate.org, another “debate” community that promotes topic-driven discussion and
critical thought