Critical Thinking Environment
A Critical Thinking Environment is an awareness, understanding and process focusing upon the design, interface and impact with the environment of the physical learning space. An awareness with ‘intentionality’. The environment is ‘The Third Teacher’ where we focus on designing the physical space with the ‘Frame of the Child’ as a root understanding. The ‘in the eyes of the child’ respects and understands the child’s frame of reference in regards to how children see, sense, use and interface within the environment. And how the teacher is intentional with their choices, decisions and actions. The teacher’s decisions:
- with intentionality — impact the classroom and school’s environment.
- are crucial to the quality outcomes of the children and youth’s learning experiences and how they model the children.
- become a model to how students learn to consider using their environment: in school, home and the greater community.