Topic № 2
Critical Thinking and Creative Problem-Solving

Critical and creative thinking involves students thinking broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as reason, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation in all learning areas at school and in their lives beyond school.

Problem solving and critical thinking refers to the ability to use knowledge, facts, and data to effectively solve problems. ... Ideal employees can think critically and creatively, share thoughts and opinions, use good judgment, and make decisions.

The skills that we need in order to be able to think critically are varied and include observation, analysis, interpretation, reflection, evaluation, inference, explanation, problem solving, and decision making. Specifically we need to be able to: Think about a topic or issue in an objective and critical way.