Help your students develop critical thinking skills
LessonUp is an online teaching platform where you can find, edit, create, and teach interactive lessons. Welcome to our critical thinking toolkit—designed as part of CPD for teachers. Here, you'll find a wealth of resources to help your students develop a critical mind, understand the meaning of critical thinking, and apply critical thinking skills in their academic and everyday lives.
Resources to strengthen critical thinking in your classroom
Our toolkit provides a variety of educational tools and materials as part of continuing professional development for teachers, including:
✅ Research-based papers and articles on critical thinking
✅ Learning techniques to develop critical thinking skills
✅ A webinar with insights on how to encourage critical thinking
✅ Examples of effective critical thinking questions
By integrating these resources into your teaching, you’ll help students move beyond memorisation and develop a deeper understanding. This will enable them to think independently and approach new information with more confidence.
Webinar and CPD paper
What’s happening in the world? What caused it? And how can we evaluate the information we receive?
Helping students develop critical thinking skills is essential in today’s information-rich world, which is why we’ve designed this webinar and CPD paper as part of continuing professional development for teachers. We explore a selection of learning techniques and strategies to bring current events and other interesting topics into the classroom, engage students with critical thinking questions, and show them how to analyse sources critically.
By encouraging a critical mind, you’ll equip students with the ability to think rationally, logically, and independently—skills that are invaluable for all of us.
4 insightful reads on critical thinking
How can you actively engage students in developing critical thinking skills? What role does real-world context play in learning? And how can AI tools like ChatGPT support critical thinking in the classroom?
In these four blog articles, we explore effective strategies to help students think independently and critically. Discover active learning strategies that promote deeper understanding, ways to connect lessons to real-world contexts, and practical tips for using critical thinking questions to spark engagement.
By integrating these approaches into your teaching, you show your students how to evaluate information critically and ask meaningful questions. Time for a quick read? 👇
Blog articles about critical thinking
Learning techniques to promote critical thinking
How can you encourage critical thinking skills in your classroom while keeping discussions open-ended and engaging? How can you help students analyse critical thinking questions without reducing topics to simple 'right' or 'wrong' answers?
Here, we share some practical learning techniques that you can apply directly in your lessons, regardless of the subject you teach. Many of these strategies harness the power of visuals—such as thought-provoking images—to develop a critical mind and support students' ability to evaluate information critically.
Feel free to explore these techniques and select the ones that best suit your students. With LessonUp, you can save any slide as a favourite and easily adapt it to fit your subject or classroom, making critical thinking a part of your lessons.👇
Learning techniques to apply directly in your lessons
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