Are you looking for teaching strategies aimed at increasing critical thinking in your student(s)? I've always loved teaching wheels, like those found on the Mentoring Minds website. This particular teaching wheel is designed to strengthen your child's ability for critical thinking.
Teaching wheels like the one above are available at various learning levels and cover a variety of subjects. This particular wheel promotes the development of a thinking mind and improved questioning and reasoning skills in students. Such skills will no doubt benefit them across all areas of study. The critical thinking wheel is the tool I'd most like to introduce my own students to, and the one I'm the most curious about.
Research on critical thinking seems to reveal that it's a skill that can be taught when the proper tools are presented to students. According to the experience of many educators... it appears that through instruction and practice, creative and critical thinking can be learned, positively impacting their success academically and in real life situations.
Do you teach critical thinking at home? If so, what tools have you used?
Wendy Lindsey
Wendy is the blessed mom to a 10 year old son with Asperger's
Syndrome, a beautiful 9 year old daughter, & 6 children (miscarried) in
heaven. She's temporarily given up homeschooling to give her son the peer
modeling he was missing at home, essential for proper development in a child
with autism. Currently she works full-time with special needs children as a
para-educator. 
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