How Debate Structures Allow English Learners' Brilliance to Shine

How Debate Structures Allow English Learners' Brilliance to Shine
Katrina Schwartz, Mind/Shift, 2018/04/17
This is being posted to an NPR website as an example of good teaching, but my concern here is that this approach is not grounded in a proper understanding of critical thinking (which is why I recently wrote Critical Thinking for Educators). The non-standard approach is something called 'claim-evidence-reason' where the reason 'explains why' the evidence supports the claim. More...