Billabong High International School, Thane is run by Citizens Welfare Association,a registered Public Charitable Trust dedicated and committed to providing Quality Education and Promoting Social and Cultural activities. The trust is managed by Mr. Sudhir Goenka, who is passionate about providing quality education.

1. Critical Thinking:Critical Thinking:
Higher Order ThinkingHigher Order Thinking
That UnifiesThat Unifies
Curriculum, Instruction,Curriculum, Instruction,
and Learningand Learning

2. ABOUT USABOUT US
Billabong High International School,
Thane is run byCitizens Welfare
Association,a registered Public Charitable
Trust dedicated and committed to providing
Quality Education and Promoting Social
and Cultural activities. The trust is managed
by Mr. Sudhir Goenka, who is passionate
about providing quality education.

3. Let us Begin With theLet us Begin With the
Question: What is CriticalQuestion: What is Critical
Thinking?Thinking?
 thinking about thinking while thinking in
order to make thinking better.
 thinking that assesses itself.

4. The Three DimensionsThe Three Dimensions
of Critical Thinkingof Critical Thinking
A n a ly s is
o f th in k in g
b y fo c u s in g o n
t h e p a r ts
E v a lu a t io n
o f th in k in g
b y fo c u s in g o n
t h e s t a n d a r d s
I m p ro v e m e n t
o f th in k in g
b y u s in g w h a t
y o u le a r n e d
C r it ic a l
T h in k in g

5. Throughout the rest of the talk, this
concept of critical thinking should
be understood as what is meant by
higher order thinking.

6. ThesisThesis
Education, as a concept, defines a
set of higher order goals,
but actual school learning
typically culminates in a set of
lower order results.
How can we narrow the gap
between goals and results?

7.  So that in math classes students learn
to think mathematically.
 So that in history classes students learn
to think historically.
 So that in science classes students learn
to think scientifically.
How can we make highHow can we make high
order goals a practicalorder goals a practical
reality?reality?

8. students begin to think critically in a disciplined,
self-directed fashion
A major obstacle we face is that most teachers make
assumptions about instruction, knowledge, and
learning that are incompatible with high order
results.
And so that in generalAnd so that in general

9. What is missing is coherence,What is missing is coherence,
connection, and depth ofconnection, and depth of
understanding.understanding.

10. The bottom line, as we all well know, is not what
is taught but what is learned.
Students are learning something very different
from what we think we are teaching them.