The Mindsprings Critical Thinking Club
Don’t Just Learn Critical Thinking. Observe and Practise Critical Thinking.
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- For students aged 14–18 and teachers / educators
How is it Unique?
01 / For Educators
- This is not a conventional workshop for teachers. It’s a 10 session architecture of learning.
- 10 online opportunities to watch, analyse and deconstruct critical thinking in action.
- A three month online learning sessions comprising of ten live fishbowl demonstrations. In each session, a group of studentsengages in a carefully designed thinking task while Usha Pandit moderates, probes, challenges and makes the underlying thinking strategies explicit for participating educators.
- Teachers observe, perceive and ask how can I reproduce this in my classroom? Additionally, teachers can practice topics offered in the sessions with their classes.
- Asking questions
- Fielding misconceptions, assumptions and fallacies
- Inquiring for evidence
- Using reasoning
- Generating alternatives
01 / For Students
- The student panel learns. It is a laboratory of ideas as they prepare, enquire, use strategies, practice discussion skills, justify, question, clarify, identify weak reasoning, build on one another’s idea, infer, and challenge assumptions.
- Furthermore, all student members, get invaluable and efficient ways to summarise information; communicate succinctly in a group discussion; learn the skills of listening and collaborative team work.
- They will be introduced to superb resources. They will learn to integrate several disciplines while analysing a given topic.
- They will learn to ask questions that allow inquiry into several domains in logical, lateral, convergent and divergent thinking.
- More importantly, students will understand the role of positive and poor thinking in stereotypes and mindset traps to create balance, resilience, and confidence.
What is the Fee?
For students (ages 14–18)
Rs. 2,500/-
- For all 10 sessions · GST additional
- 10 live online sessions
- 2 hours per session
- Programme learning resources
For educators and adults
Rs. 6,000/-
- For all 10 sessions · GST additional
- 10 live online sessions
- Fishbowl observation and analysis
- Classroom application resources
Session Content
- Ideation
- Art of questioning
- Identifying fallacies in arguments
- Evidence gathering
- Multiple perspectives
- Communication skills and group discussion skills
- Preparation resources
- Applications on lessons from classroom texts.
- Thinking strategies
- Moderator-led analysis
- Q&A/community board
About the Program Director and Mentor Guide
Usha Pandit M.A, M.Ed has been an educator, author and academic consultant for four decades. She has taught in schools in India, Hong Kong (British curriculum), Jakarta (Australian curriculum) and New Zealand. She has certification in TEFLA from Cambridge UK and has trained in critical thinking in the prestigious George Parkyn Centre in New Zealand.
She conducted classes for bright, gifted children in Cathedral and John Cannon School in Mumbai.
She has written books for teaching English which are used in schools across the country. Her books include Empowering English, Language with Ease, Writing with Ease and Pre-Primary books.
Usha Pandit has conducted a number of workshops and webinars to train teachers. Her YouTube channel “The Mindsprings English Teacher” has 120,000 subscribers and over 8 million views.