A key element in transforming schools’ beliefs and practices successfully lies in the culture in the classroom and its effects on pedagogical practices. Only within a conducive environment and culture can change take root. Guided by these pertinent considerations, this workshop is designed to equip teachers with the sound knowledge about critical thinking to inform and guide the practices they pick up as reflective and thinking educators of the 21st century.
成功改变学校信念和实践的一个关键因素在于课堂文化及其对教学实践的影响。只有在有利的环境和文化中，变革才能生根发芽。在这些相关考虑的指导下，该研讨会旨在为教师提供关于批判性思维的扎实知识，以告知和指导他们作为 21 世纪反思和思考教育者所采取的实践。
As part of the workshop, teachers will be given the opportunity to examine their notions of critical thinking and the understandings they have about the importance of critical thinking in education before arriving to a comprehensive conceptualization of critical thinking needed to inform their practices.
作为研讨会的一部分，教师将有机会检查他们的批判性思维概念以及他们对批判性思维在教育中的重要性的理解，然后才能对他们的实践进行全面的概念化。
They will then be introduced to concept of a culture of thinking (COT) that is aimed at engendering the fertile ground for the classroom and school to be the spaces for teachers to engage students. Given that a COT is where ‘a group’s collective as well as individual thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted as part of the regular, day-to-day experience of all group members’ (Ritchhart, 2002), teachers will not only build on their understanding of critical thinking but also acquire a repertoire of practicable strategies to create a visible COT in the classroom in which collaborative skills and critical and inventive thinking skills and dispositions can be simultaneously developed and nurtured over time, becoming part of the regular learning experience in school.
然后，将向他们介绍思维文化 （COT） 的概念，该文化旨在为课堂和学校创造肥沃的土壤，成为教师吸引学生的空间。鉴于思维文化是“一个群体的集体和个人思维作为所有群体成员的常规日常经验的一部分受到重视、可见和积极促进的地方”（里奇哈特，2002），教师不仅将建立在他们对批判性思维的理解之上，而且还将获得一系列实用的策略，以在课堂上创建一个可见的思维文化，其中协作技能以及批判性和创造性思维技能和性格可以同时存在随着时间的推移而发展和培养，成为学校常规学习经验的一部分。
