Critical Thinking Program

Open Door is launching a NEW program called the 'Critical Thinking Program,' designed in partnership with IIT Gandhinagar. This program assists your teachers in teaching critical thinking to students during school hours.

What is Critical Thinking Program?

The Critical Thinking Emergency: Why should you teach critical thinking?

According to a report published by the World Economic Forum in 2020, critical thinking was the second most important skill that employers and educational institutions were looking for in their candidates. Schools that teach critical thinking to their students today will raise adults who are smarter, more creative, and possibly more successful.

Why should you choose Critical Thinking Program?

How will this program help you?

This program will help your students develop:1. Critical thinking skills: Evaluation, Analysis, Reasoning, and Interpretation.2. Critical thinking behaviour: Curiosity, Open-mindedness, truth-seeking, Intellectual humility.

Structure of the program:

1. One class a week: Taken by the teacher.
2. Critical Thinking Exercise book by Open Door for each student.
3. Training for the teachers.
4. Three Critical thinking assessments for students

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How do schools benefit from Open Door?

GEMS Legacy School, Dubai uses Open Door’s assessments to take data-driven decisions

Open Door helped teachers of this school in bridging learning gaps. Even during the pandemic.

Asha Alexander GEMS Legacy School Dubai Principal

Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Kolkata finds Open Door's assessments a class apart

Can teachers be trained without training them?
Read an interesting take on classroom assessments.

Children are now finding Science and math more interesting at Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai

This school has transformed its classroom from monologues into a lot of dialogues.

Read Schools' Case Study!

Read how Open Door 'Thinking Assessment' bought improvement in these schools!

GEMS International School started using Thinking Assessments 3 years ago. Why?

The unique story of GEMS International School uses assessments to identify misconceptions, work on them, and then observe evidence of improvement in learning. Every school should read this story.

The Case study of a School in Dubai

How are the teachers in this Dubai school making sure that a topic is understood well before they move to the next topic?

The case study of Modern English School, Guwahati

Read the case study: How Open Door's Thinking Assessment made learning better among students at Modern English School.

Listen to the Thinking Classroom song: A catchy tune that showcases a teacher's quest to create a Thinking Classroom.

FAQs

What are Open Door's programs for schools?

Open Door offers 'Thinking Assessments' and 'Thinking Classroom' programs to schools. Thinking Assessments is a series of thought-provoking assessments followed by immediate feedback. Thinking Classroom is a set of workbooks of questions that make children think and help teachers speak less while teaching.

For which grades is this program offered?

Our Thinking Assessments and Thinking Classroom programs focus on Math and Science:
Thinking Assessments (Math & Science): Grades 3–10
Thinking Classroom (Math & Science): Grades 4–10

The Critical Thinking Program—designed to develop critical-thinking skills—is offered for Grades 6–8

Teachers are already designing assessments. Why do they need Open Door's Thinking Assessments?

Teachers tend to use similar examples every year. By using Open Door's assessments, teachers challenge themselves and students to think deeper. This also provides school management to reliably gauge student understanding through an external body of assessments.

Which curriculum are Thinking Classroom program mapped to?

The Thinking Assessment program is mapped to CBSE and ICSE schools, the Thinking Classroom program is mapped to CBSE, and the Critical Thinking program can be integrated into any curriculum.