The Main Advantages of Teaching 'Critical Thinking' to Students

In the competitive world, it is necessary to make right and quick decisions. Hence, it is important that right from a small age, children should learn to think, focus and analyze any given situation to take right decisions after finding optimal solutions.

If students get right direction, they can conquer the world with flying colors. Hence, it is necessary that we should not provide them with limited knowledge. We should make them think on their own; to solve small and big problems will help them to succeed in life. So, encouraging children rather than making them memorize things is important. Critical thinking aids to build awareness, improve understanding and analyzing skills. With these skills, students can control their thought processes.

Why to Develop Critical Thinking Skills Of Students: 

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Many strategies can be applied to make students learn or develop critical thinking skills. Students can learn these crucial skills right from the classroom. Asking simple questions to the students will get them to think critically. The discussion is another way of incorporating critical thinking skills in the young minds. Do not provide them with the conclusion, let their mind wander and think about the case study. Conference style learning and giving writing assignments also helps to develop these skills.

Here are some problems which students and educators both face which give rise to the development of critical thinking:

Reading: Students can read and can also write well in exams. However, they may fail to understand the topic which they just read. Reading is actually ‘depth of analysis'. Hence, those students who have poor thinking skills face poor skills related to reading comprehension.

Writing: Some students are not able to express or relate written ideas. Those who fail to present or relate to the ideas; they are not able to communicate the idea clearly. Hence, it is a must that every student must have a better understanding of what he/she wants to communicate. Students must be able to outline the idea in a sequence logically and should structure it out to the audience.

Mathematics: Many students do not succeed to reason mathematically. They struggle hard to solve the word problems because they fail to comprehend the problem.

Science: Students fail to apply the scientific technique to their scientific studies and its analysis. The basics and foundation of the principles of science are related to Critical thinking.

Social Studies: Frequently, students cannot see analogous events due to their poor analysis skills.

Thus, students must be exposed to critical thinking in education as it will help to improve their lives, analysis skills and effectiveness of the learning lessons. Critical thinking skills empower the young minds to become innovative and independent