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K-3 Grade Teacher Bundle

The K-3 Teacher Bundle includes instructional design materials for grades K-3, elementary products for classroom use, and materials to help the teacher learn and begin to internalize the concepts of critical thinking. The Thinker's Guides included help deepen a teacher’s understanding of the foundations of critical thinking.

$119.95

This set includes:

  • 401B - Critical Thinking Handbook: K-3
  • 540M - Critical Thinking for Children, 2nd edition
  • 543M5 - Think About Fran and Sam
  • 570M - Thinker's Guide to the Human Mind: Thinking, Feeling, Wanting, and the Problem of Irrationality
  • 595M - The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking: How to Take Thinking Apart and What to Look for When You Do
  • 541M - Teacher’s Manual for the Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking for Children
  • 542P - Masks of Fran, Sam, Nancy (set of 3)
  • 350DVD - Children's Guide to Critical Thinking Companion Video
  • 574M - Teacher's Handbook for Critical Thinking for Children
  • 544M - Fairminded Fran and the Three Small Black Community Cats
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Testimonial:
 
I am back in the classroom this year working with full-day kindergartners.  Critical thinking remains at the forefront of my work as I embrace working with young minds. In the past three weeks of school we have already started naming our inferences and checking them to see if they are logical. I can't wait to see what we can do after 6 weeks!

In addition, my work with the Colorado Department of Education came to fruition and the Foundation’s work is deeply embedded in the literacy standards under Research and Reasoning.  I am pleased that the state recognized the quality of the Foundation’s work and adopted the standards last December.  There have been many emails forwarded my way from educators in Colorado seeking clarity on what it means to teach critical thinking.  I hope the emails continue.

Again, thank you for the resources. 

Carmen Polka
Full Day Kindergarten
Ponderosa Elementary School
School of Global Learning: “Care, Create, Collaborate and Innovate”




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  1. Many people believe that critical thinking should be free and that scholars qualified to teach critical thinking should do so for free. Accordingly, they do not think they should have to pay for critical thinking textbooks, courses, or other resources when there is "so much free material online" - despite how erroneous that material may be.
  2. There are many misguided academicians, and some outright charlatans, pushing forth and capitalizing on a pseudo-, partial, or otherwise impoverished concept of critical thinking.
  3. Little to no funding is designated for critical thinking professional development in schools, colleges, or universities, despite the lip service widely given to critical thinking (as is frequently found in mission statements).
  4. Most people, including faculty, think they already know what critical thinking is, despite how few have studied it to any significant degree, and despite how few can articulate a coherent, accurate, and sufficiently deep explanation of it.
  5. People rarely exhibit the necessary level of discipline to study and use critical thinking for reaching higher levels of self-actualization. In part, this is due to wasting intellectual and emotional energy on fruitless electronic entertainment designed to be addictive and profitable rather than educational and uplifting.
  6. On the whole, fairminded critical thinking is neither understood, fostered, nor valued in educational institutions or societies.
  7. People are increasingly able to cluster themselves with others of like mind through alluring internet platforms that enable them to validate one another's thinking - even when their reasoning is nonsensical, lopsided, prejudiced, or even dangerous.
  8. Critical thinking does not yet hold an independent place in academia. Instead, "critical thinking" is continually being "defined" and redefined according to any academic area or instructor that, claiming (frequently unsupported) expertise, steps forward to teach it.

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