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Coping with the Common Core Curriculum?

As parents and children need to pay more attention to the Common Core curriculum in the coming years, Critical Thinking Academy (CTTA) has provided an adequate program to capture the essence of the newly developed Common Core curriculum at school. As you may know, the essence of the Common Core lies in how well the teachers and students apply critical and basic thinking skills in the learning process.

Critical Thinking Skill (CTS) is an in-depth analytical thinking skill applying in a vertical way. On the surface, CTS helps to analyze and organize facts and information in a structural and functional way. At this level, students need to deal with data (fiction & non-fiction), facts, information, and emotional expression and know the differences among those surface factors to use them as evidences and proofs.

At the 2nd layer, CTS turns information into knowledge. It deals with ideas and concepts. CTS helps students to interpret the information so that the information is linked to a specific idea and a concept. Those who are able to put the information (examples) and the idea together could build up their knowledge and they are able to expand it through comparison and contrast with other knowledge they learn from various other sources. CTS helps students keep knowledge being accumulated and expanded through various readings. They now begin to do critical reading!

On the 3rd layer, CTS helps students to use the accumulated knowledge to get into the stage of wisdom, which evaluates various values. Students learn how to set up their position on the topic idea. In this process of evaluation, CTS helps to diagnose the implication and assumption of issues and propose a suggestion based on their valued position. Students now are able to make a claim, argument, thesis statement, and a priority. Their perspectives and point of view will get clearer. 

This process of Critical Thinking Skill is at the core of the Common Core program at school. Once the students master this CTS concept and process, they will get happily and enthusiastically involved in all the Common Core curricula at school.

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