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Stages of Critical Thinking

Stages of Critical Thinking

Complete the matrix by identifying the six stages of critical thinking, describing how to move from each stage to the next, and listing obstacles you may face as you move to the next stage of critical thinking.

|Stages of critical thinking                 |How to move to the next stage               |Obstacles to moving to the next stage       |
|EXAMPLE:                                   |Examine my thinking to identify problems   |Deceiving myself about the effectiveness of|
|                                           |that affect my thinking.                   |my thinking                                 |
|The Unreflective Thinker                   |                                           |                                           |
|The Challenged Thinker                     |Examine my thinking to take active steps to|Must be willing to admit my deficiencies.   |
|                                           |take command of my thinking                 |                                           |
|The Beginning Thinker                       |Examine what I am doing on a day to day     |Must develop a systematic approach to       |
|                                           |basis to begin to take command of my       |improve my thinking.                       |
|                                           |thinking.                                   |                                           |
|The Practicing Thinker                     |Examine how my day to day provides evidence|Decide what I must do to improve my         |
|                                           |of commitment to development as a high     |thinking consistently in all areas of my   |
|                                           |level thinker.                             |life.                                       |
|The Advanced Thinker                       |Examine insights into deep...