Original Text:
Linda Elder with Richard Paul
Though most teachers aspire to make critical thinking a primary objective of their instruction, most also do not realize that, to develop as thinkers, students must pass through stages of development in critical thinking. That is, most teachers are unaware of the levels of intellectual development that people go through as they improve as thinkers. We believe that significant gains in the intellectual quality of student work will not be achieved except to the degree that teachers recognize that skilled critical thinking develops, only when properly cultivated, and only through predictable stages.
My paraphrase:
Despite the fact that majority of the teachers could not realise that to become an effective critical thinker students must be gone through its various development stages, they aspire to make critical thinking as a primary objective of their instruction. Which means teachers are not aware of the gradual development of people's intellect that occurs at the stage as improvement in thinkers. Its believed that students wont achieve the indicative merits in the intellectual quality of their work except to the degree that teachers recognize that skilled critical thinking develops. It can only happen when teacher properly develops it with the help of excepted and simple stages.
My personal response to this paragraph:
This passage improves my understanding about critical thinking that there are some essential stages that each one of us should pass through if we want to become an effective critical thinkers. And most importantly teacher has to understand those properly, so that s/he can teach his/her students how they can think critically.
Linda Elder with Richard Paul
Though most teachers aspire to make critical thinking a primary objective of their instruction, most also do not realize that, to develop as thinkers, students must pass through stages of development in critical thinking. That is, most teachers are unaware of the levels of intellectual development that people go through as they improve as thinkers. We believe that significant gains in the intellectual quality of student work will not be achieved except to the degree that teachers recognize that skilled critical thinking develops, only when properly cultivated, and only through predictable stages.
My paraphrase:
Despite the fact that majority of the teachers could not realise that to become an effective critical thinker students must be gone through its various development stages, they aspire to make critical thinking as a primary objective of their instruction. Which means teachers are not aware of the gradual development of people's intellect that occurs at the stage as improvement in thinkers. Its believed that students wont achieve the indicative merits in the intellectual quality of their work except to the degree that teachers recognize that skilled critical thinking develops. It can only happen when teacher properly develops it with the help of excepted and simple stages.
My personal response to this paragraph:
This passage improves my understanding about critical thinking that there are some essential stages that each one of us should pass through if we want to become an effective critical thinkers. And most importantly teacher has to understand those properly, so that s/he can teach his/her students how they can think critically.
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