Critical Thinking. It enables us to recognize a wide range of subjective analyses of otherwise objective data, and to evaluate how well each analysis might meet our needs. Facts may be facts, but how we interpret them may vary.
Over the weekend I conducted my interview for this week’s literacy assignment. The person I chose to interview was my aunt, who is the head principal at a local high school. Once we were done with the interview there were aspects she furthered on upon me asking some questions and the subject revolved around critical thinking and writing and how that is incorporated into the Collins Writing Program. Collins Writing is a 5 step program that builds us up to be critical thinkers and good writers. This was interesting to talk to her about. She was explained how it is brought into the school system and how it is integrated into each academic level. As she touched upon each level, I could remember certain points in my academic career when I either learned the steps to critical thinking and writing in school or when I had to learn them myself; this was especially signifiant in my freshman year of college. I had to learn how to think critically and analyze to understand the material. In order to pass some of my classes I had to be able to ask the right questions while studying to succeed.
I would like you to take a look at this website (link below) and read a little about the Collins Writing Program. Did your school integrate this into the learning system? What aspects of this system do you think could be changed? What are the best parts of the system? For those of you who want to teach, which area do you think is most important? If one cannot critically think while writing does that make them a bad writer?
http://www.collinsed.com/5types.htm