"The ability to effectively use higher order thinking skills to plan, teach, and reflect on instructional practice while integrating and applying theories of teaching, learning, and development."

Being able to teach critical thinking effectively sounds like a hard thing to do but it can be quite easy if you have the right tools. Some people argue that critical thinking skills are only used in certain subjects when in reality, student use it inside and outside the classroom. If a student can make connections from the material to an orginal concept, then they are thinking critically. Here are 7 ways to teach critical thinking in elementary education.