Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum (CTAC), the website for the Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Initiative at Albuquerque TVI Community College; teaching for critical thinking at the community college level.

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Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum
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Thoughtful Teaching for Thoughtful Learning

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Welcome to the Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum (CTAC) Website at Albuquerque TVI Community College. This website is a work in progress, put together by the CTAC Initiative as a way of archiving and advertising its efforts to encourage a free exchange of good ideas to promote "thoughtful teaching for thoughtful learning."

What is critical thinking?
Where can I read more about critical thinking?
What resources do other colleges and businesses have to offer?
How can you share what you're doing with others at TVI?
What critical thinking skills do employers want? (SCANS competencies)
How can students learn more critical thinking skills?
How can teachers at TVI teach it?

To explore further, click on a question above or the links on the left.

Subscribe to the Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum email discussion list, by contacting Nancy King at nseeking@cnm.edu. This email list will continue the discussion on "thoughtful teaching for thoughtful learning" begun during the June '99 workshop.

For further information about thoughtful teaching for thoughtful learning, surf this site and/or let us know what you think by clicking on the Discussion Forum icon and posing a question or by clicking on the mailbox icon to email CTAC.

Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer:

TVI Admin. Sponsor: Jon Bentley

You can quote me...
"Time is the only critic without ambition."
--John Steinbeck

Try this in your classroom:
History in Context In this technique used to spur thinking, Robert Teigrob, A&S History instructor, aims "to endorse notions that 1) the understanding of historical events requires an appreciation of context, and 2) that students are progressing in their development of this contextual knowledge and in their broader critical thinking skills as budding historians."

Chuckle of the week:
Put "the" and "IRS" together and it spells "THEIRS"!

Updated November 15, 2006, by Nancy King and Patrick Houlihan.