At New York Academy, we teach our students how to develop critical thinking skills so that they learn to innovate and solve problems rather than just memorize facts. Students are taught to think deeply about what they learn, ask questions, and seek out answers.
There are 11 Cognitive Processes that are the fundamentals of critical thinking:
- Activate and Connect Background Knowledge
- Visualize
- Generate Questions
- Make Inferences
- Gain Perspective and Empathy
- Compare and Contrast
- Identify Cause and Effect
- Conclude and Predict
- Analyze and Synthesize
- Determine Importance
- Monitor Comprehension