Instructional strategies for teachers, students, and administrators in all grades and content areas that help teach and facilitate the essential skills of Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity. Select a tag to filter the list or scroll down.
Critical Thinking skills begin with the ability to ask good questions (Tony Wagner). This section includes strategies that support deeper thinking, questioning and inquiry, reflection and metacognition, and knowledge-building.
Communication is the skill of effectively sharing ideas. This section includes strategies that promote presentation, discussion, speaking and listening, and persuasion.
Collaboration means more than group work. It means working together to create new ideas or products or actions as well as contributing from diverse skills or knowledge to a shared objective. This section includes strategies that address interactivity; shared construction of meaning; and peer structures, accountability, and feedback.
Creativity is the application of knowledge, skills, and imagination to new or different contexts (Sir Ken Robinson). This section includes strategies that cultivate diffused thinking, ideation, knowledge transfer, and empathy.
