Critical Thinking Essentials: Applying Critical Thinking Skills

Overview/Description
Your thinking can have a significant effect on the quality of your life – it determines how well you work through complex problems, make decisions, and accomplish your goals. That's why developing critical thinking skills is so important. To think critically is a practical goal – one you can apply to every question, issue, or problem you face. This course explains how critical thinking promotes creative thinking. It also describes the skills required for critical thinking and how to apply critical thinking to decisions, problems, or issues in the workplace.

Target Audience
Individuals who want to develop or refine their critical thinking skills

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Critical Thinking Essentials: Applying Critical Thinking Skills

categorize examples as either creative thinking or critical thinking

identify the value of being able to use critical thinking to complement creative thinking

match examples with the critical thinking skills they illustrate

determine which steps in applying critical thinking have been appropriately followed in a given scenario