Critical Thinking Strategies

University of Phoenix Material Tommy Neisz

Strategies to Develop Critical Thinking

Now that you identified your current stage as a critical thinker, it is necessary to adopt strategies to develop your thinking. Of the nine strategies you read about this week, choose three that you can begin to practice. Identify the strategies and describe how you can implement each strategy in your daily life.

|EXAMPLE |

|Strategy: Deal with my emotions. |

|Implementation Plan: |

|When I am faced with a decision, I will examine the positive and negative emotions associated with my decision. This will help me |

|limit the influence of my emotions on my decisions. |

|Strategy 1:A problem a day |

|Implementation Plan: |

|I will pick out a problem at the beginning of every day and focus one just that one problem. I will do this during my free time at |

|lunch or late at night. I need to ask myself, how does this question relate to my goals purposes and needs. |

|Strategy 2:Reshape my character |

|Implementation Plan: |

|Sometimes at work I get in a bad mood because I do not want to be there, Next time I start to get mad...