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Virtual Event

Teaching Critical Thinking


Facilitator:
Dr. John Eigenauer
Duration:
2 Hours

Dates
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Description

This workshop provides participants with specific tools they can use to teach critical-thinking skills in an online environment. An emphasis is placed on using the tools in Humanities and Social Sciences classes to improve students’ reading and writing skills.

Learning Outcomes/Objectives

  1. Understand the fundamentals of critical-thinking skills.
  2. Learn how to apply precise pedagogical methods that help students at any level improve their critical-thinking skills.
  3. Learn how to apply precise pedagogical methods that improve students’ writing skills based on critical-thinking practices.
  4. Learn how to create critical-thinking rubrics.

Activities

  1. Participate in exercises that have been proven to enhance students’ critical thinking.
  2. Create exercises that enhance and measure students’ critical-thinking skills.
  3. Receive worksheets that have been shown to enhance students’ critical-thinking skills.

Participants can claim a digital badge and certificate upon completing the workshop and a post-workshop survey.

Facilitator

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Dr. John Eigenauer is a professor of philosophy at Taft College. He holds a master’s degree in English, a master’s degree in humanities, and a doctorate in interdisciplinary studies from Syracuse University, where he was the recipient of the prestigious Syracuse University Fellowship. Dr. Eigenauer has taught philosophy, English, mathematics, computer science, physics, and Spanish. He has delivered workshops nationally and internationally on the pedagogy of critical thinking and published articles on critical thinking and rationality. His most recent article, “The Problem With the Problem of Human Rationality,” published in the International Journal of Educational Reform, was highlighted in Psychology Today. Other publications of Dr. Eigenauer’s have appeared in The Historian, The Harvard Theological ReviewHistory of Intellectual Culture, Inquiry: Critical Thinking across the Disciplines, The Rational Alternative, Thinking Skills and Creativity, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Huntington Library QuarterlyInnovation Abstracts, and The NISOD Papers.