How to Develop Critical Thinking Skills in a Diverse Population

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  Assess your average student's reasoning skills by administering critical thinking assessment tools at the beginning of the academic term. This will give you an idea of how to best approach instruction for a diverse student body.
  
  
• 2). Survey the cultural background of your students by distributing a voluntary demographic survey. Understanding the cultures represented in your student population will help you prepare relevant teaching materials that they can relate to. Differences in framework theories - that is, the core way in which cognitive analysis occurs - yield different approaches to argument. In particular, Eastern and Western reasoning have functioned differently over the centuries. This will equip you to communicate effectively with students of various backgrounds.
  
  
• 3). Establish the fundamentals of critical thinking, like logical reasoning, sound arguing, and problem-solving. Decide whether to teach critical thinking explicitly, through specific supplemental curriculum, or implicitly, by integrating critical thinking principles within the subject you are teaching.
  
  
• 4). Acknowledge cultural variances in innate cognitive frameworks when explicitly introducing critical thinking skills to a class. Instruction can be approached either by encouraging students to be aware of their thinking frameworks and to improve their thinking skills in whatever context they practice, or by introducing students to alternative methods of reasoning, in order to expand their reasoning capabilities and to equip them to adapt to other contexts.
  
  
• 5). Reassess your students' critical thinking skills regularly after beginning deliberate critical thinking improvement measures. Take cultural cognitive patterns into account when analyzing your class's reasoning skills. Measure grasp of basic concepts, ability to utilize the concepts in targeted problem-solving, and ability to improvise solutions to complex problems.