Ten types of thinking (storytellers, visual, systemic, associative, logical, organizer, architect, intuitive, leader and vision) and no critical thinking between them. I started my search in the internet from a very simple task “To identify a list of types of thinking” – and answers were amazing! An enormous number of different types of thinking. What does it mean? – it means that there is no common ground behind. At the same time there is a lot of information continue...

“Happy people don’t just enjoy life; they’re likely to live longer, too. A new study has found that those in better moods were 35% less likely to die in the next 5 years when taking their life situations into account.” In case we really want our children live longer – we have to introduce few new standards for teachers: - express positive feelings during classes and after; - use positive case studies and examples; - encourage positive feelings in students. And continue...

Dear colleagues! Today, on November 1st, I found this interesting article, on the results of a study, which reveals some interesting details related to school performance of students. Interestingly enough, the study shows that even the month of your birth determines the way you would perform at school and not only … Is the school performance really related to the month you were born in? Does the school performance of students depend on other aspects than the month of their birth? How continue...

Abstract Critical thinking is an emerging trend for classroom teaching, decision making and personnel development. People in dierent location are using the didactic learning which believes on attention, recall, recitation, sin- gle path to understanding, limited learning styles. But critical learning is an approach based on exploration, creativity, critical analysis, indirect paths to understanding, multiple learning styles. Critical thinking is the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking continue...

The classroom instructions should focus on cooperative work, decision making, critical thinking, opinion formation, and debate … These are some of the key issues that are highlighted in a recent Report by Prakash Sharma from Nepal. This comes as a result of a Training Program conducted by Mr. Sharma, during which Critical Thinking methodology has been presented and practiced with school managers and supervisors. Abstract: This  report assesses the details of workshop/training on continue...

Dear Colleagues! Warm greetings to you all! I have received emails from some of you, wondering where have the Monday messages for CT Community of Practitioners dissapeared:)! This is just to briefly inform you that we, at “CMB” Training Center, are working these days on quite big and important conceptual changes related to the Blog and the future of this platform … The Blog will be looking differently and will address several issues, critical thinking  being one of them continue...

Accroding to Nathanael Fast of the University of Southern California study Power corrupts! This study should have described the personality of that small percent of people that did not behave badly in the high-power/low-status quadrant. I think that those people were good critical thinkers, because their decisions were not influenced by any stereotypes. Anyway, this is just an assumption – but some more data may help to advocate for developing critical thinking continue...

Dear colleagues,There is an interesting article on homework in NY Times on improving the tasks for homework.Some recent research results are described – results that can be used in teacher training: 1.  “Retrieval practice,” employs a familiar tool — the test — in a new way: not to assess what students know, but to reinforce it. We often conceive of memory as something like a storage tank and a test as a kind of dipstick that measures how much information we’ve put in continue...

Dear colleagues, I just found a very interesting article on weight: http://infox.ru/science/animal/2011/09/06/Byelyyy _zhir_buryeye.phtml (in Russian) http://www.bucharestherald.com/dailyevents/41-dailyevents/ 25572-socialising-enhances-fat-conversion-and-loss-in-mice (English and Romanian) Article in Russian is much more detailed, but sure you may find the English detailed version of the study. Of course, there are a lot of interpretation in the article, but anyway some facts are very continue...

Dear CT Practitioners! Warm greetings to you all! First of all, warmest congratulations to all those who started a new, academic year on September 1st. At least in Moldova, like in all former Soviet countries, September 1st has been the date for the beginning of the school year! Yesterday, has been a very important day for thousands of grade 1 students and their parents …  Yesterday, has been an important day for my family too: Madeleine (10 years old) moved to grade 5 (gymnasium) and continue...