Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional & Personal Life

Authors: Richard Paul and Linda Elder
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2002
ISBN: 0-13-064760-8
Pages: 358 Weight: 2 lbs.
Binding: Hard Cover

You are what you think…
Everything you do in life is determined by the quality of your thinking. If you aren't thinking clearly, you're at the mercy of everyone else-from dishonest politicians to aggressive, stop-at-nothing ad agencies. Unfortunately, many people never give any thought to how they think. No wonder they're susceptible to the frustration, pain, ineffectiveness, and financial loss that result directly from poorly considered thinking. Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life-as a professional, as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and even as a lover.

25 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living

A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life

Author: Linda Elder and Richard Paul
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 89
Binding: Soft Cover
Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces
ISBN:  0-13-173859-3

Critical thinking is at once simple and complex. Though there are many layers to critical thinking, and you can always deepen your understanding of it, there are some basic ideas in critical thinking that, if taken seriously, can almost immediately improve the quality of your life. This book offers 25 such ideas. You can focus on one idea per day or one idea per week. And each idea is immediately applicable to your life. This book is for anyone interested in improving the quality of their lives by improving the quality of their thinking.

Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use - Concise Edition

Like its parent text, Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life, Second Edition, this book focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical; it provides reader with the basic intellectual skills they need to think through content in any class, subject, discipline, and through any problems or issues they face.

Critical Thinking: How to Prepare Students for a Rapidly Changing World

Author: Richard W. Paul
Editors: Jane Willsen, A.J.A. Binker
Publisher: Foundation for Critical Thinking
Copyright: 1995
ISBN: 0-944583-09-1
Pages: 572 Dimensions: 6" x 9" x 1.5" Weight: 2 lbs.
Binding: Soft Cover

In a world of shallow values, instant gratification, and quick fixes, this book is for those readers who see the benefit of intellectual traits, standards, and abilities that will enable them to cut through the propaganda, the information blitz, and make sense of the world. In this anthology of his major papers, Richard Paul explains how to help students become intellectually fit, how to build the intellectual muscle to overcome inherent self-deceptive tendencies and rise to the challenges of a rapidly changing world.

Critical Thinking Handbook: 4th-6th Grades

A Guide for Remodelling Lesson Plans in Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science
Author: Richard W. Paul, A.J.A. Binker, Karen Jensen, Heidi Kreklau
Publisher: Foundation for Critical Thinking
Copyright: 1990
ISBN: 0-944583-01-6
Library of Congress number: 87-72836
Pages: 427 Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" x 1" Weight: 2 lbs.
Binding: Soft Cover

Think About Fran and Sam

Author: Linda Elder
Publisher: Foundation for Critical Thinking
Copyright: 2004
Pages: 24
Dimensions: 5" x 8"
Weight: .2 lbs.

This story about Fairminded Fran and Selfish Sam is our first in a series of stories which help children explore important concepts like fairness, selfishness, and intellectual empathy. At the end of the story, children are asked to relate the concepts of fairness and selfishness to their own thinking and behavior.

*not included in set of 18 Thinker's Guides

Teacher’s Manual for 540M (children’s mini-guide)

1. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools, a resource that briefly introduces teachers to the critical thinking concepts and theory they need to effectively teach children to improve their thinking and learning.
2. One copy of The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking for Children.
3. Suggestions for using The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking for Children and teaching basic critical thinking concepts.
4. “Think for Yourself” (TFY) activities for children which help them internalize critical thinking concepts. If your children are at the k–2 level or have reading difficulties, you can use the exercises as idea generators for verbally teaching the concepts.

A Study of Critical Thinking in College Instruction

Full Title: California Teacher Preparation for Instruction in Critical Thinking:
Research Findings and Policy Recommendations California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, Sacramento California, 1997

Author: Richard W. Paul, Linda Elder, Ted Bartell
Publisher: Foundation for Critical Thinking
Copyright: 1997
Pages: 184 Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" x .5" Weight: 1 lbs.
Binding: Soft Cover

This is the first comprehensive study, based on rigorous research methodology, which quantitatively and qualitatively determines the extent to which college faculty typically teach for critical thinking, the methods faculty use to teach critical thinking, how well faculty can distinguish between high quality and low quality thinking, the extent to which faculty can articulate their understanding of critical thinking, and the extent to which prospective teachers are prepared to teach critical thinking. Results are based on a study of randomly selected California professors from 38 public and 28 private colleges and universities. Click Here for more information on this document.

Critical Thinking: Instructor’s Manual for 102B

Everybody thinks to some extent about mistakes he or she makes and how to correct them. Critical thinkers are different in that they seek systematic ways to improve their thinking and to create for themselves systematic practice to serve this end. This book is designed to help motivated learners develop into fair-minded critical thinkers. By critical thinking, then, we mean the art of devising systematic ways to improve the quality of our learning and our lives (by systematically improving the thinking that underlies them).

By the end of the course, the students should demonstrate documented critical thinking skills, be articulate about their strengths and weaknesses as aspiring "fair-minded" thinkers, insightful in discussing their stages of personal development as thinkers, and reasonably proficient in carrying out a realistic plan for the improvement of their thinking.

Learning to Think Things Through: A Guide to Critical Thinking in the Curriculum

Author: Gerald M. Nosich
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pages: 194;  Dimensions: 6" x 9" x 1/2"  Weight: 1 lb.
Binding: Soft Cover

Copyright: 2009, 3rd Edition

ISBN:978-0-13-813242-2

Built on Richard Paul's model of critical thinking, Learning to Think Things Through, was written to help students engage in critical thinking within the discipline or subject matter they are studying.

The Greensboro Plan: A K-12 Staff Development Model

Author: Janet L. Williamson
Publisher: Foundation for Critical Thinking
Copyright: 1991
ISBN: 0-944583-06-7
Pages: 105 Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" x .5" Weight: 1 lbs.
Binding: Soft Cover

A National Model for Critical Thinking Staff Development - An Urban, Conservative, Multi-Racial, Success Story. Some would say that the city of Greensboro, North Carolina is an unlikely site for a national model for critical thinking staff development. A medium-sized city nestled in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, near the Appalachian Mountains. 1400 classroom teachers. 21,000 students. A conservative Southern community. Tight budget. Multi-racial (both students and staff). Yet there it is. See how a district has been developing a first-rate, long-term critical thinking program.