ONLINE Critical Thinking in Children Course ONLY £19

Certificate

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be awarded a Certificate of Achievement. This should help validate their learning experience and skill, and can be used as a resume builder.

Course Format

This course is divided into several modules and is delivered online through our interactive learning management system. Students are given access to the learning portal where they can access the course 24/7. This gives them complete control over the pace of their learning while also enabling them to study from home, in their offices or from a laptop while traveling.

Course Duration:

Normative or minimum period of study to complete this is 45 hours. Take note that this is only an estimate. The duration of completing the course still depends on the learner’s pace and ability to absorb information. Additionally, as the course is delivered online, learners have the options to divide and study the course in multiple session or go through it one go.

Learners will be given full access to this course for 12 months from the date of enrolment. During this period, learners are given the flexibility to complete the course at anytime.

The Course Units:

• Unit 1 – Introduction to Critical Thinking in Children
  
  • Modern Education: Then and Now
  • How Children Think and Learn

• Unit 2 – Importance of Teaching Children and How to Think and the Different Knowledge Structures
  
  • Kinds of Concepts
  • Formation of Knowledge
• Unit 3 – Strategies Used in Effective Learning
  
  • Physical and Verbal Strategies
  • Advanced Learning Strategies
• Unit 4 – Metacognition
  
  • How Metacognition Works
  • Theory of Mind
• Unit 5 – Developing the Desire to Think in Children
  
  • How to Manage a Child’s Anxiety and Stress
  • Tips how to Develop a Child’s Curiosity
• Unit 6 – The Significance of the Different Intellectual Standards for Thinking
  
  • Why Intellectual Standards are Important
  • Teaching Children based on Intellectual Standards
• Unit 7 – Different Approaches to Problem Solving Skills
  
  • Stages of Response in Children
  • Perspectives of Solving Problems
• Unit 8 – High-Quality Critical Thinking
  
  • Model for Critical Thinking
  • Self-Motivated Child Learners

While some children are overly active, there are some who have the tendency to be passive. Children who are passive simply accept everything that they are told, therefore, they lack the ability to think thoroughly or critically. Children who tend be more questioning in that they look for reasons instead of simply accepting what other people say, are said to demonstrate critical thinking. Even during their young age, children can give confident argument or explanation about what they think is right which is an example of critical thinking.

Critical thinking can be developed with the right tools and approach. It promotes powers of observation, understanding logical connections between ideas, rationalizing, thinking clearly, analyzing, conceptualizing, evaluating, reasoning, and solving problems systematically.

At the end of this course, students shall learn how to:

(1) teach children using different knowledge structures;

(2) strategize the uses of effective learning

(3) develop children’s desire to think; and

(4) utilize high-quality critical thinking skills in solving problems.

To achieve these goals, this course shall make use of interactive materials to present the concepts of the topics to be discussed. Assessments shall be done after the entire course to check for knowledge retention and understanding.

Critical thinking prompts an individual to strategize in finding solutions for simple to complex day-to-day problems. Teaching and encouraging critical thinking empower individual lives which is of the essence in this period of rapid of change.

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