Strategies for Teaching Cognitive Thinking

Arabic

Description

Thinking is an active, vital process full of stimuli. It involves the continuous testing of hypotheses and the discussion of opinions, ideas and proposals.

Teaching thinking

Students do not learn to think by listening alone. Teachers need strategies that pose problems, invite questions and give students room to reason, compare and justify.

What the presentation covers

The nature of thinking and its types
Strategies for teaching cognitive thinking skills
Designing classroom activities that develop thinking

Objectives

Understand the nature of thinking and its main types.
Identify cognitive thinking skills that can be taught.
Apply strategies for teaching thinking in the classroom.
Use questioning and discussion to stimulate reasoning.
Design activities that develop analysis, comparison and evaluation.
Assess students' growth in thinking skills.

Who it's for

Teachers at all stages, educational supervisors and curriculum developers, and students and researchers in educational psychology.

Version 1 — updated 17 October 2026

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