Why I Changed My Mind on Teaching Thinking Skills
Larry Cuban,
Oct 17, 2022
"After the two weeks of direct instruction in skills, I plunged into the Coming of the American Revolution and subsequent history material," writes Larry Cuban. But this didn't work. "The concept of teaching these skills isolated from the historical content–as I did–undermined the very goal I wanted to achieve." Now it could be a problem of 'transferring' these skills to a specific application like history. Or (as I would suggest) it could be that a two-week introductory module is simply insufficient for teaching critical thinking skills. Imagine we taught math that way! Or reading!
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