Three days workshop on critical thinking strategies in teaching and learning

Is there any person who can teach all level of the students and confidentially said all my
students are satisfied with my teaching? It is perhaps impossible min most of the cases (Dines’).
So the teaching profession should be differentiable according to not only students level,
interest, etc but also the nature of the content. Now a days the perception of students and others
towards the teacher is different. Teaching is not imposing the content. It is the process of
fostering the students’ innate capacity and restructuring students previously gained knowledge in
new context. So for that purpose the teacher’s role is most important. The teacher should create
that kind of environment and facilitating the students to work with in small groups and construct
the new valid and reliable knowledge in new context. Those teacher who apply Critical thinking
strategies in classroom teaching and

The main objectives of the workshop on Critical Thinking strategies are as follows:

- To introduce about the different format of lesson planning.

- To introduce different critical thinking strategies.
- To apply introduced strategies in classroom teaching.
- To make teachers to integrate some of the strategies to their lesson plan of respective
subject.
- to select appropriate teaching learning strategies according to the content and nature of
content.
- To demonstrate different strategies of different subjects.
Lists of the major strategies those will be introduced within the classsr as follows

TPS. Jigsaw, One stay other stray, graffiti, Gallery Walk, Paper gallery, KWL, what? So what
and now what?, Quick write, DRTA, T chart, M chart, TC and TDC, etc

day Session I Session II Session III Debriefing

I Introduction to Planning of the lesson Presentation By participant

Critical thinking and with Critical thinking on the
CT strategies model different
models of
planning
II Model lesson Demonstration of some construction By participant
demonstration on the strategies of the lesson
content on Critical plan in group
thinking and fitting the
appropriate
strategies
III Demonstration of Construction and Construction Training
 strategies demonstration of the and Evaluation
lessons in groups demonstration
of the lessons

Nara Hari acharya, Head of Department Mathematics Education Sanothimi Campus TU,

Critical Thinking Master Trainer , Certifier from OSI foundation USA, coordination to FOE.

Textbook writer of GoN Ministry of Education , Curriculum Development Center, Bhaktapur.

MToT, TITI Bhaktapur, M.Phil fellow of UGC.