Three of the following teaching strategies should promote critical thinking. Which strategy, although beneficial in other ways, will not necessarily promote critical thinking skills?
a. Portray the sciences and social sciences as disciplines that will evolve as new evidence comes in.
b. Have students relate new information to things they already know about the world.
c. Have students debate a controversial issue by taking a perspective in direct opposition to what they actually believe.
d. Ask students to read a persuasive essay and look for possible flaws in the author's line of reasoning.
Question 2
Which one of the following is a higher-level question?
a. Can you remember the three categories of rocks that we studied yesterday?
b. Now that I have done one multiplication problem on the board, can you do the next two multiplication problems?
c. Can you use what we learned about snakes and what we know about climate in North America to guess where this snake might live?
d. Here are the same rocks we looked at yesterday. Can you sort them into three pilessedimentary, igneous, and metamorphicthe way we did yesterday?
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