7:00 pm, Tuesday, 6/25: Critical Thinking Skills and GPA
7:30 pm, Thursday, 6/27: Critical Thinking Skills and College Application Essay
8:30 pm, Thursday, 6/27: Critical Thinking Skills and Critical Reading/Debate
Critical Thinking Skills & College Essay--seminar summary
How can we write a unique college essay? The answer lies in realizing how we all are born with such unique environments as family, school, and community. Then, we need to brainstorm the time and place where we find ourselves most memorable.
Next, we need to ponder in what areas of values we find ourselves most comfortable--truth, beauty, and virtue. We humans are born with goals and problems since our lives are not predetermined. We seek the goals based on the values we cherish. We prioritize the seriousness of the problems based on the values on which we put higher priority. The goals and problems are the two sides of the same coin. In order to write a good college essay, we ourselves should know what values we esteem most in reflection of the goals and problems of the events or issues we identify through the brainstorming.
Finally, the skills of brainstorming should be learned and the critical thinking skills of distilling values from the goals and problems need to be applied. Also, the detailed and concise writing style is highly recommended.
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Critical Thinking Skills & GPA--seminar summary
Critical thinking skills (CTS) improve students’ GPA. CTS is directly linked to students’ learning at school. When students know how to conduct an in-depth analytical thinking, the school becomes their laboratory to test and practice CTS in all classes including English, science, math, and social studies.
On the surface, CTS helps to analyze and organize facts and information which are very important for most school tests and quizzes.
On the 2nd layer, besides improving the basic analytical skill of classification, CTS turns information into the knowledge level. Students learn to interpret the information so that the information can be led by a topic idea sentence. Those who put the information (examples) and the idea together could build up their knowledge and they are able to expand it through comparison and contrast with other knowledge they learn from various sources. CTS helps keep knowledge being accumulated and expanded. This layer is the most active stage of analysis and synthesis.
On the 3rd layer, CTS uses the accumulated knowledge to get into the stage of wisdom, which evaluates various values. Students learn how to set up their position on the topic idea. In this process of evaluation, CTS helps to diagnose the implication and assumption of issues and propose a suggestion based on their valued position. CTS process definitely increases students’ GPA scores in school learning.
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