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 * > **An Educator's Guide with Lesson Plans** ||



= =Critical Thinking= The Foundation and its related entities aim to improve education in all subjects at every level by providing information, research, and resources on critical thinking. This site provides excellent background resources on the subject of critical thinking.
 * **The Foundation for Critical Thinking**

www.criticalthinking.org || **Catalina Foothills Critical Thinking Rubric** Catalina Foothills School District created a series of rubrics to assess student critical thinking skills. They measure critical thinking skills such as comparing, classifying, inductive and deductive reasoning, error analysis, and decision making.

http://tinyurl.com/ydteapw || **Council for Aid to Education’s (CAE’s)** Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) and College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA) These assessments from CAE measure analytic thinking, critical thinking, problem solving, and written communication skills. The CWRA is available for high school use. Access the scoring rubric at http://tinyurl.com/2vh3ugo.

http://www.cae.org/content/pro_collegework.htm. || These lesson plans integrate critical thinking into core academic subjects such as science, English language arts, social studies, geography, and others.
 * **Critical Thinking Lesson Plans – University of**
 * North Carolina (UNC)**

http://tinyurl.com/3w3a8e8 || **FIRST LEGO® League** Teams will discover what can be done when intense natural events meet the places people live, work, and play. Brace yourself for NATURE’S FURY!

http://www.firstlegoleague.org/challenge/2013naturesfury || **Isaksen and Treffinger’s Model for Critical and** Scott Isaksen and Donald Treffinger developed a six-stage, critical and creative thinking model that is outlined in their book, Creative Problem Solving: The Basic Course (1985). Their model is briefly described in this PDF:
 * Creative Thinking**

http://tinyurl.com/ydv82hz. || =Communication= Twenty-first century readers and writers need to:
 * **National Council of Teachers of English’s**
 * (NCTE’s) 21st Century Curriculum and**
 * Assessment Framework**

http://www.ncte.org/positions/ statements/21stcentframework || **New Literacies Research Lab** Lisa Zawilinski, Donald Leu, and members of the New Literacies Research Lab share additional thoughts on 21st century literacies. Good insights on how digital texts and information is affecting reading, writing and communication skills.

http://www.ncte.org/magazine/extended || **The Reading and Writing Project**
 * K-8 writing samples.**

http://tc.readingandwritingproject.com/resources/ student-writing/kindergarten || =Collaboration= =Creativity=