"Critical thinking is the art of taking charge of your own mind. Its value is simple: if we can take charge of our own minds, we can take charge of our lives."
- Critical Thinking Community
DCT: Developing Critical Thinkers LLC is an educational consulting company that offers highly effective and innovative Professional Development workshops focused on improving instructor effectiveness by promoting proven strategies that foster literacy, critical thinking, and creative problem solving for EDUCATORS, FAMILIES, and BUSINESSES. They have succesfully ran school wide, enterprise and individual trainings throughout the Hawaiian Islands, in the Oil and Gas Industry, and across Southeast Asia. Their Provisionally patented process has produced suggestive data for classroom pass rates (an increase them from 12% to 70%) and a 4.6 out 5 rating average for workshop services provided in the Oil & Gas Industry. Their unique recipe of classroom strategies and enterprise solutions are changing the way clients perceive learning and ultimately how they critically foster it within their respective environments. DCT is committed to continually shaping creative and critical thinkers that are capable of innovating the solutions of tomorrow. Please feel free to check out our SERVICES page to learn more about how we can help you!
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TEDxHonolulu
DCT had the distinction of being selected to share our experience and approach to fostering critical thinking, creativity, and self-efficacy fostered in the classroom at TEDxHonolulu back in 2011. This opportunity truly gave us the encouragement to reflect on our practice as well as the begin shaping the direction we wanted to take as we started sharing our approach with other educators around the globe.
INNOVATION Short
Sean and Dan were selected by the Hawai'i State Teachers Association as one of the many representations of innovation created in the classrooms of Hawai'i. The best part of this project was the opportunity to not only share our classroom approach, but to have Kinetic Productions capture our students thoughts and experiences in such a dynamic way was incredible! If you are interested in contacting Kinetic Productions of Honolulu , check out their site here: Kinetic.
Student Innovation
DCT was asked to run a workshop at the presitigous Nanyang Girls School in Singapore. This workshop was designed to address self-directed or 1-to-1 learning as well as approaches to building critical and creative thinking with any topic. In this short, you will see time laps footage as well as student interviews from these inspiring group of young women!
CCSA CONFERENCE PREZI
If you had a chance to sit in our breakout session "Accelerating Competency by Critically and Creatively Developing Schema" and you would like to review the prezi, then simply use th viewer to the left. Please feel free to email us if you have any questions and/or you just want to continue 'Talking Story.' Developingcthinkers@gmail.com
DOE COMMON CORE CONFERENCE
If you had a chance to sit in our breakout session "Creatively Connecting Common Core and Student Self-Directed Learning" and you would like to review the prezi, then simply use th viewer to the left. Please feel free to email us if you have any questions and/or you just want to continue 'Talking Story.' Developingcthinkers@gmail.com