在过去的英语课堂上,我们常会听到老师这样问:
“What information can you get from the passage?”
或者"What can you learn from the article?"
这些问题考察的大多是学生对文本的理解,而不是学生是否能够分析行文思路,以及作者论证的合理性。
《国际学生评估项目PISA 2018设计草案》对阅读的侧重从重“理解”走向重“反思”,从再现文本信息到批判性输出信息。换而言之,在当今这个瞬息万变的社会中,我们的阅读不仅只为了得到信息,更是为了批判性地去解读和表达信息。
批判性思维是什么?
无论是鉴别信息、做决策、解决问题,大多数人在大多数时候依靠的是什么呢?
是自己的感觉,既有的观点和别人的意见。然后就不断试错,遇到新的问题再想办法去解决,因而经常面临一个问题:如何在信息海洋中筛选出有价值的信息,以及如何避免错误的信息左右我们的大脑?
批判性思维,给我们提供一套思维上的工具方法,让我们知道从何处入手,怎么样形成一个更明智的判断。批判性思维不等于标新立异,而是一种质疑和求证的能力,面对问题时不会轻易接受既有结论,而是会进一步对问题进入深入思考,评估问题的深度、广度和逻辑性,进而得出自己的见解。
英锐CRW课程
英锐CRW课程教学宗旨:培养批判性思维与写作技巧
Fostering theability for critical thinking is at the heart of our Critical Reading and Writing (CRW) program. Through nine curriculum levels of academic advancement,the CRW teachers at ENREACH inculcate criticality of mind to prepare students for future study at English language universities, no matter whether they enter our system at Level 3 or Level 7. It is our duty to address and build student abilities to critically evaluate and communicate information in English to effectively participate in tertiary study.
培养批判性思维能力是我们批判性阅读和写作(CRW)课程的核心。通过九个不同级别(L1-L9)的课程,英锐的CRW老师传授的是思维习惯,为学生们进入大学的学术英语学习打下基础。无论对哪个级别的学生,我们的目标都是一致的——建立其批判性思维能力和英语表达能力,使其顺利地进入大学学习。
The greatest scholars and scientists throughout time, from Galileo to Hawking, from Einsteinto Mo Zi, all exhibited identities as critical thinkers which has enriched our world. From first to last, they each manifested the qualities of:
a desire to bewell-informed
intellectualcuriosity
tolerance forambiguity
ethicalintegrity
respect fordiffering perspectives
responsiblecreativity
从伽利略到霍金,从爱因斯坦到墨子,伟大的学者和科学家都展示出批判性思维的特质,这种特质表现为以下几个方面:
博学
求知
包容
诚实
尊重异见
创造力
Each of these cpossessed a need not only to perceive the natural world around them, but to question the fundamental fabric of existence based on the six key qualities above. Their abilities to critically assess, measure, and communicate knowledge, ideas, and information have set the design of our modern world and to understand the nebulous space around our planet.
Therefore, to assure this goal, our CRW curriculum is built to ward ensuring our student slearn to experiment, question, and theorize with knowledge and information during their educational journey. It is our purpose for our pupils to become active critical thinkers for the benefit of their futures and for humanity atlarge.
智者们不仅需要感知存在,还需要质疑存在,具备批判性地评估和交流知识,思想和信息的能力,这种能力决定了我们如何构建世界、理解宇宙。
以此为目标, CRW课程旨在让学生在学习过程中,学会自己验证、质疑和推理知识和信息,成为具备批判性思维的个体,点亮人生并造福人类社会。
成果展示
L5级别的CRW写作课旨在培养学生的研究性写作能力,今天的小论文成果展示是来自两位同学——Jane Song & Wilson Wang。他们针对人类进化展开了深入研究:
从话题、假设、论点、例证,批判性思维贯穿学生的论文写作当中。阅读力、写作力、思维力,这些提高的不仅是学生的英语水平,更能让他们在未来的求学之路中受益无穷。