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Training Teachers to Teach Critical Thinking How KIPP educators instruct their colleagues to enhance their classroom practice. BY MARIKO NOBORI KIPP King Collegiate High School principal Jason Singer trains his teachers to lead Socratic discussions (above); Katie 卡蒂Kirkpatrick柯克帕特里克 (right), dean of instruction教务长, developed a step-by-step按部就班的 framework -- described below -- for teaching students basic critical-thinking skills. Credit编辑: Zachary Fink KIPP King Collegiate高中校长辛格.詹森Jason Singer培训他们学校的老师进行苏格拉底式的讨论。该校的教务长卡蒂.柯克帕特里克Katie Kirkpatrick，发展了一个按部就班的框架，用来教给学生们最基本的批判思维的技巧。Credit编辑: Zachary Fink Thinking critically is one thing, but being able to teach it can be quite another. Katie Kirkpatrick, dean of instruction at KIPP King Collegiate High School, developed the schools Speech Composition class, a requirement for all students. In the class, students learn basic critical-thinking skills. The class has been so effective that she now trains teachers how to leverage critical-thinking skills in their classrooms as well. We sat down with Katie to learn about how she trains staff. Here are her answers to some of our questions. 会批判思维是一回事，会教批判思维确是另外一回事。KIPP King Collegiate High School的教务长卡蒂.柯克帕特里克Katie Kirkpatrick开设了一门面向全体学生的演讲与写作课Speech Composition class. 在这门课上，学生们学习最基本的批判思维技巧。这门课是如此的高效以至于她现在已经开始培训教师们如何在教室里leverage critical-thinking skills。我们和凯蒂一起坐下来学习她是如何培训教师们的。以下是她关于我们所提出的一些问题的回答。 Define what critical thinking in the classroom is. Its an approach to teaching that allows students to make sense of the content. They analyze the content, they evaluate the content, and theyre able to apply it to their daily lives. Teachers ask specific questions to get the students to do those things. 明确什么是教室里的批判思维。 这是一种教学生们弄清楚内容content的方法。他们分析内容，然后评估内容，并且他们能够把这个内容应用到他们的日常生活中。教师们通过提特殊的问题来让学生们像以上那样做。 How is your training session structured?你的培训课是怎么构成的？ Its a three-hour training on the frameworks that I use in my own course, which I generated from the?Toulmin Model of Argumentation. It in