Teaching critical thinking means giving students intentional challenges and supportive practice overcoming those challenges using specific intellectual skills. Geared towards faculty, this video series was created as part of the Teacher to Teacher website developed by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the School of Undergraduate Studies (UGS) at the University of Texas at Austin, and funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. These videos were part of 14 modules, ten focused on specific critical thinking skills, and four on specific teaching methods. These modules are then categorized using Halpern's (2003) framework for teaching critical thinking skills across disciplines. According to this framework, well-rounded critical thinking instruction helps students acquire: a critical thinking attitude or habit of intellectual deliberation; individual intellectual skills like analysis and inference; the ability to use these skills in new contexts, and the ability to reflect upon and evaluate one's own thinking (metacognition).
Visit the Critical Thinking website for full access to the learning modules and additional materials and resources.
