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3 Tips to Refine Your Student’s Independent Thinking Ability

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John Knight
3 Tips to Refine Your Student’s Independent Thinking Ability

Students face a number of easy, straightforward to difficult, thought-provoking questions both in the classrooms and exams. Gone are the days when students used to sit behind the desk and hoped to absorb every word the teacher is delivering in his or her lecture, today each subject requires a different kind of thinking ability for the students. Simply speaking, the use of digital tools in modernized classrooms have tempted the learners to use their brains better than before.

Given the importance, here we’re going to discuss how teachers can refine the thinking ability and mental strengths of their students.

  1. Encourage conflicting ideas in a productive manner

Students are asked to voice and present their understanding of every topic in the subject, and this brings in one of the toughest challenges for the teacher. The ability to welcome conflicting ideas in the classroom is a normal routine, and the case become even more difficult when we talk about complex and challenging topics.

Consider a debate on French Revolution in the history subject. Let suppose the debate in the Revolution relates to the Napoleonic wars, here the teacher will ask one group will act as victors, where the other group of volunteers will act as losers. Furthermore, the students can also talk about how French Revolution altered the course of the modern history and gave birth to several modern political ideologies.

The idea is to encourage the students to present their ideas and findings without anyone ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.

  1. Facilitate brainstorming dialogues

It is common to see some students taking notes during the lectures in the classroom. Being an educator myself, I would rather say that rather than penning down pointers to help you remember the key points of the topic, the learners should write their questions and concerns to be asked at the end of the class.

The extroverts are okay with the idea of voicing their ideas and questions verbally, while the introvert ones are more comfortable with asking questions at the end after writing down in their journals. This is why brainstorming sessions are promoted to happen on regular basis in the classroom. The idea is to run a session that’s a win-win session for all as well as invite all the learners to demonstrate their findings and ideas.

  1. Focus on the positives

Risk-taking is not a common ability that can be seen in all the learners in the class. And if some do demonstrate a degree of risk taking, the educators should praise their thinking ability to come up with such initiatives. Consider a situation where a student writes and submits a top-notch writing piece, worthy of quality as being prepared by a specialized dissertation help company. This is what the educator will admire and praise about, hence tempting others in the class to uplift their academic performance as well.

The idea is to encourage the students to step out of the box, and come up with unique learning styles.

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