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Amazing Ways to Develop Your Children’s Critical Thinking Skills

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Daniel Leo
Amazing Ways to Develop Your Children’s Critical Thinking Skills

Developing critical thinking skills will help your children solve problems, understand the world around them better, and grow up with a mindset that helps them think and create instead of merely reacting to situations. Critical thinking skills are also the foundation for skill development. Most importantly, you want to make sure your children develop the skills they need to think and decide for themselves.

Here are some ways you could help that along.

Pick the Right School

Sending your children to GIIS, the best school in Kuala Lumpur is the right start. We provide plenty of opportunities for learning critical thinking skills. You will find a curriculum that provides lessons and training to help children develop critical thinking skills. In fact, our 9GEMS teaching methodology will help them develop the skills. 

Enhance Reading Comprehension 

Reading comprehension is essential when your children are trying to develop a skill. Help them distinguish between what they understand and don’t about an idea or statement. When they read through a book, discuss the story, characters, and other details at length. Do they understand fully what they read? What kind of details do they pick up on? Knowing all that will help you figure out what they take away from the stories and how you can improve reading comprehension.

Be Alert to Issues

Some children have trouble reading. If your child also struggles with it, find out why. It could be due to dyslexia, for instance, or some other learning disability. Don’t automatically assume that your children are lazy or that they don’t just like reading. Get to the bottom of the problem. That will help you figure out how to help your child and move forward from that situation.

Connect the Dots 

Help your child connect the dots of different issues around them. Encourage them to ask questions or investigate an issue or subject further. Teach them how to research a topic. Show them how you resolve a problem by going over the steps with them.

Summarize

Have your children summarize a chapter or a story. You can read it to them and then ask them to give you back a summary of what they’ve listened to. Summaries require a full understanding of the events. What are your children’s takeaways? What details did they understand about the chapter and which ones confused them? This will tell you a lot about their understanding level and what you can do to improve their reading comprehension.

Use Play

Provide opportunities wherein your children could play and test how things work at the same time. That’s crucial to develop critical thinking. Many Primary school children think about cause and effect when they play. What happens if they roll a marble? What happens if they get the block to balance on the mini table or their tower? All this will provide your children with plenty of chances for hands-on experiences that are crucial to abstract critical thinking.

Don’t Step In 

When you see your children doing something, don’t intervene right away. Instead, ask them what they’re doing. Don’t try to do it for them or solve the problem for them, not unless they ask for help. Let them complete the task, even if it takes longer. With enough practice, they’ll improve.


We highly recommend you reach out to your child’s class teacher to create a strategy that can be used both in the school and at home. 

 

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