...Critical Thinking Application Critical Thinking by some is thought to be as important as or more important than most material or physical items such as money, homes, or automobiles. So what is more important than critical thinking? Well, a couple of extreme examples to illuminate the point are food and water. They are without a doubt two of the most important items that our body requires for survival, and so it is with the application of critical thinking. In this paper I will discuss my understanding of critical thinking and relate it to a personal experience at work, showing its validity in the work environment. I will also explain its importance and benefits. Critical Thinking According to the National Counsel for Excellence in Critical Thinking Instruction, critical thinking is defined as “the mode of thinking about any subject, content, or problem in which the thinker improves his or her quality of thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them.”( Scriven, M., & Paul, R.,1987). Critical thinking involves how one goes about gathering, evaluating, and choosing information and the best methods in solving situations or problems. Critical thinkers are rational and focus strictly to the facts in order to analyze the issues at hand. They are open-minded to all possible options, think outside the box for new ideas, and recognize any bias in his or her thinking and decision making. Thinking is a part...
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...Critical Thinking Student Development Unit 2005/06 [pic] [pic] Welcome! This booklet contains all the handouts and information that you will need for the Critical Thinking workshop held at the Student Development Unit. As well as the exercises we’ll be working on during the session, you will also find guidance that you can keep for future reference, such as advice on active learning and intelligence, models for critical thinking skills, and questions to help you think critically. When you are asked to complete an academic assignment, your tutor will be looking for evidence of these three skills: • Gathering of complex material • Making sense of that complex material • Communicating your understanding of that complex material to an informed reader.[1] The ‘making sense’ stage is the one we tend to neglect out of fear that we may not have anything of value to contribute. But, as the eminent thinker Edward De Bono puts it: ‘Thinking is a skill that can be improved by training, by practice and through learning how to do it better. Thinking is no different from any other skill and we can get better at the skill of thinking if we have the will to do so.’[2] We hope that this handbook will help you to develop strongly argued and well-structured pieces of work, and encourage you to build critical thinking into every aspect of your academic life. Be prepared to make some changes to how you work – if you always...
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...Competencies Juline DiSilvestro Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430 V Monica Kidder RN, MSN May 11, 2013 ADN VS BSN: Differences in Competencies The complexity of modern healthcare and the patients of today mandate a higher level of academic preparation than in the past. Advanced critical thinking skills are a must. Nurses need to function independently, making clinical decisions, providing bedside care, case management, education to patient and family in regards to disease process, treatment, and how to adapt to a healthier lifestyle. As healthcare continues to evolve and become more complex, it is necessary to assure proper education has been achieved. Controversy among the nursing profession has existed for many years regarding what is the acceptable minimum education for nursing practice. The ADN program takes 2-3 years to complete. The ADN programs started due to a need for nurses during a nursing shortage brought on by WWII. The ADN program provided a shorter period of time to acquire the necessary minimal skill to obtain licensure, and practice safe entry level nursing without the emphasis on leadership, nursing theory and critical thinking. The focus of ADN programs has been to prepare the nurse with considerable clinical experience and technical nursing tools needed to provide patient care at the bedside (Cresia & Friberg, 2011). They do not have the education to perform research activities which becomes the basis for the nursing care of today...
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...Abstract This paper explores critical thinking skills and teaching them in an educational setting. Teaching critical thinking is highly debatable. Many feel as though it is not a necessary skill that needs to be learned and others feel as though it is not a skill that can be taught. In this paper I will discuss what critical thinking is and ways it can be taught in an educational setting. Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Schools For many years critical thinking has been an important issue in education. Following the 1948 Convention of the American Psychological Association, Benjamin Bloom, an American educational psychologist, took control over the development of the goals of the educational process. The goals of the educational process included knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Ever since, the debate over critical thinking has been a hot one (Schneider, 2002). What is critical thinking? Well throughout the past decade the definition of critical thinking has somewhat changed and there are numerous definitions to define it. According to Paul Chance, “critical thinking is the ability to analyze facts, generate and organize ideas, defend opinions, make comparisons, draw inferences, evaluate arguments and solve problems” (Chance, 1986). According to Tama Carrol critical thinking is, “a way of reasoning that demands adequate support for one’s beliefs and an unwillingness to be persuaded unless support is forthcoming”...
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...due to a nursing shortage in the post war years (Haase, 1990) Since then, the curriculum has changed from teacher or subject oriented to bedside and basic critical thinking skill. The ADN program is a two year program not including the required general education classes. The BSN program is a four year program including prerequisites. The BSN program emphasizes in critical thinking, leadership skills and a professional role away from the bedside. Both programs include their core curriculum of Adult Health, Maternal and Newborn nursing and Pediatrics. BSN Program includes nursing research and nursing informatics. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing(AACN) believes nurse with their BSN degree are more prepared for today’s workforce due to their well-developed critical thinking skills, leadership and ability to practice in different settings The ADN student focuses on providing bedside care to patients with acute and chronic health needs with policy and procedures reflecting current standard of care. The obvious differences between the programs are the ADN program is quicker and less expensive but with limitation to higher nursing positions. The ADN students experience bedside care during their first clinical rotation where the BSN students experience clinical setting closer to completion. This allows for more skill building for the ADN student. The starting pay is generally the same unless the position requires BSN. The AACN...
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...Topics to be covered today: FHEL 1012 ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC STUDY Lecture 1 Critical Reading Skills 1 Barriers to Critical Thinking Making inferences and drawing conclusions Identifying themes and main ideas of texts 2 Aims of Lecture 1 The main goal is to develop in students the skills and the confidence to approach a piece of academic text, read it efficiently and critically, and extract main ideas and key details. But the goal of academic reading is more than just retrieve information. It is also the development of academic writing. Assessment for EAS Assignment 1 (Written) Assignment 2 (Presentation) Mid Term (Week 6 or 7) Final Exam 20% 15% 15% 50% 3 4 WHAT DO YOU FIRST SEE? 5 6 1 5/26/2014 7 8 WHAT DO YOU SEE AND BELIEVE? Seeing is not believing. An idea should be formed based on valid evidences and unbiased perception. However, other perceptions and interpretations are possible. Acceptance of other opinions. To think CRITICALLY! BARRIERS TO CRITICAL THINKING… 9 10 Barriers to Critical Thinking (Why do people find Critical Thinking so difficult? What prevents people from thinking critically?) 1. Egocentrism - inability to see other people’s viewpoint - focus on self: I, ME, MYSELF selfish 1. Egocentrism 2. Sociocentrism 3. Unwarranted Assumptions and Stereotyping 4. Relativistic Thinking 5. Wishful Thinking 11 12 2 5/26/2014 Two common forms of Egocentrism are: 2. ...
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...Human Services Client Paper Tom Berg University of Phoenix BSHS/305 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES: AN INTRODUCTION Dr. Lowell Brubaker March 10, 2014 Abstract The Human Services Client Paper explains some of the many problems and issues that an individual may struggle with in his or her lifetime. From their ability to seek help with their most basic needs to seek help for more complex physical and mental needs. We have learned over the years that a client's needs and problems range from short term issues to longer term issues and being able to solve the most immediate ones first will allow the professional the ability to recognize and help solve the underlying long term issues. As Maslow’s hierarchy of needs shows us the complex structure of one’s needs, it also gives us an example of how to understand the need to satisfy those needs and to help the person achieve self-actualization. The professional must possess certain skills and qualities as they are essential to a well-balanced helping process. These skills range from effective communication with the ability to walk a few feet in someone else’s shoes. Human Services Client Paper According to the National Organization for Human Services (nationalhumanservices.org), the field of Human Services is broadly defined, uniquely approaching the objective of meeting human needs through an interdisciplinary knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems, and maintaining...
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...During the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution heralded the opening of hotels in Europe's major cities. The owners of many of these hotels aimed to attract wealthy travelers by building intricate and ornate buildings. Throughout the 20th century, hotels sprang up across Europe in mountain and resort regions. The European hospitality industry is a growing industry and encourages its managers to develop an international approach to hotel and restaurant management. INNS FOR TRAVELERS From the beginning of the enterprising individuals built and developed inns to serve the needs of pioneers traveling across the country. These inns initially offered only basic facilities, but then as competition grew, they began providing more extensive services for those prepared to pay more. MODERN HOTELS Modern hotels, built with the sole purpose of providing hotel accommodation, launched in cities. City hotel, opened at the beginning of the 19th century....
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...To obtain a challenging full time job placement in the field of business administration, marketing and/or sales that will enable me to display problem solving, critical thinking, and professionalism skills simultaneously. Also I aspire to excel as a future leader in global business, industry, and commerce. EDUCATION: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL School of Business and Industry Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Marketing Graduation date: Summer 2012 RELEVANT COURSES: • Financial Accounting • Cost Accounting • Managerial Accounting • Intermediate Accounting • Corporate Finance • Financial Policy • Business Calculus • Quantitative Methods • Principle of Economics I &II • Service Marketing • Sports Marketing • Production Management • Consumer Behavior • Introduction to Management • Business Policy • Professional Leadership Development • Principles of Marketing • Organization Behavior EXPERIENCE: 02/11- 05/12 Sodexo-FAMU Dining Services Tallahassee, FL. Caterer • Assisted with food preparation, food service, cleanup, and logistics. • Provided courteous and professional service to the guest. • Engaged in extensive teamwork situations in order to meet time constraints. • Coordinated event set up and planning. 06/06- 05/12 Yoyo’s Wings-N-Things...
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...can sustain its performance and continue to grow. Thinking in new ways is also known as creativity and innovation. Creativity is taking ideas beyond the normal boundaries and innovation is using the available skills and resources to create new product and service offerings, process technologies, and enabling technologies (Davila, 2006, p. 35). The process of managing creativity and innovation can improve the organizational effectiveness because “all innovation begins with creative ideas” (Jones, 2004, p 409). Best Snacks Inc. must implement organizational strategies that support innovation and the development of new products and services as well as implement a program designed to increase its employees’ creative thinking skills. Additionally, Best Snacks Inc. should also make changes to its management systems. In this paper, I will describe the issues Best Snacks, Inc. is facing as well as its opportunities to implement a creative and innovative environment that will enable the company to regain its industry leader status, increase sales, and to reverse its downward trending stock price. It will then discuss the stakeholders, dilemmas, benchmarking, alternatives, and, finally, the recommended course of action that Best Snacks, Inc. should take to meet its strategic goals. Describe the Situation Issue and Opportunity Identification Best Snacks Inc., a publically held company, has been a leader in the snack food industry. As customer performances began to place a...
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...How to Guide for REFLECTION ------------------------------------------------------------- How to Guide for REFLECTION The National Service-Learning Cooperative ServeAmerica K-12 Clearinghouse Pennsylvania Institute for Environmental and Community Service Learning Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center Compiled by Lorraine Parrillo Cooperative/Clearinghouse Coordinator Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center December 5, 1994 Used with their permission INTRODUCTION This module includes a summary of materials currently used to support reflection in the service learning movement. Crucial information presented includes: 1. Introductory materials on Reflection by Diane Hedin and Dan Conrad 2. Reflective teaching techniques using eleven different forms of reflection rather than just using journals and asking how participants feel about service 3. Basic critical thinking skills that may be used in reflection sessions 4. Bibliography Reflection Reflective learning techniques are not the lone providence of service activities. All thinking and dialogue requires some form of reflection if learning is to take place. Individuals need time and reconsideration of events to put facts and ideas into sequence and eventually into a better understanding as to what happened during a specific event. Everyone in their life-time will be required to repeat this process endlessly. Nevertheless, schools do little...
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...new ways of working. • The central role of managers in promoting change. • The treatment of workers as individuals rather than pan of a collective work force.. • The encouragement of workers to consider management. as "priers" rather than as opponents --'us and us', rather than 'us and them'. Why is HRM Increasingly Important? Form a Business Process Parspentive Caker and Bititci(2001) state that: "One many summarize that the 80's were all about automation .The 90's have been about people, this is evident in the development of Tom concepts throughout the 90's focusing on delegation, involvement ownership cross functional teamwork, self managed works teams and so on"' Therefore, HRM (People Management) is a critical nigh advancing the business results. 'This report Primarily focus on Human Resource Management. It shows us what the usage of human resource management and how does it work in the company. Now we know the importance of HRM. According to the teacher's requirements and after a careful research., we just take McDonald's for example to write a report about HRM...
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...Hwy 124 West Hoschton, GA 30548 United States PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Highly motivated and experienced retail sales and customer service associate with demonstrated ability to exceed performance goals, improve customer satisfaction, solve problems and build lasting relationships with superiors, internal, and external customers EDUCATION AND TRAINING * Everest University Currently Enrolled Sophomore Student Area Of Study- Associate 's Degree in Business Management Orlando, Florida 1-877-439-0003 RELATED COURSEWORK * Business | * Business Development | * Customer Relations and Service | * Applied Business Law | * Accounting I and II * Basic Critical Thinking * Introduction to Business * Computer Applications * Strategies for Success SALES EXPERIENCE | * Career Skills * Principles of Management * Fundamentals of Interpersonal communication | Third-key Sales Ass. Manager 5/1/2006-1/1/2009 www.ItsFashion.com Cato's Commerce, Ga Women's retail clothing and apparel store. * Consistently attained over 95% of all monthly sales goals for my store's district despite a turbulent economic market. * Sold 45% more up sells than any other associate from 2007-2009 * Provided high quality customer service to sustain customer loyalty and acquire new business. * Trained new employees on customer relationships, proper sales techniques...
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...occupations frequently involving work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals and real-world materials like wood, tools and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others. Lastly the website defines social as occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others. As determined by the website I would work well in sales, food and service working. This exercise may have proven accurate for some but highly off based for myself. I have no interest in working in a food industry or in a social setting. I believe the questions and results weren’t accurate to say the least. I will not be using this career planner. The questions that were presented to us are: discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you to improve your critical thinking skills, and how can knowing your competencies help you to evaluate arguments? On a positive note I do believe the competencies activity was very accurate. I say this because I’m aware of my incompetency’s and my strengths and weaknesses. The result of the activity was remarkable because I feel to believe that it was spot on. I think that it is very important for a person to know their incompetency’s...
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...Cashier Training Needs Assessment Food City Beverly Moreno Park University HR421 Corporate Training & Development Taylor, Debbie G. Cashier Training Needs Assessment Food City Food City is a fast and up and coming competitor in the retail grocery business. Established in 2009, the company’s commitment is to provide excellent customer service while providing low cost to the community. Food city wants to offer their employees the support that is needed to encourage growth, skills, knowledge, and higher performance. Food city wants to stand above the competition to obtain our business objectives by providing training support to all employees. It is the observation of the company that cashiers are the ones most likely to be in direct contact with the customers. This opens the door to communicate and perform exceptional customer service. An immediate area of focus is on the front-line implementing the opportunity to increase customer service, carry out correct codes and procedures, listening and understanding information while using appropriate vocabulary, language and tone. Since customers are our number one priority, development of curriculum is in direct response to increasing demand in the operation for training materials that will target specific application of work related skills. Corporate office has asked for input to create a training program designed for continued, up-to-date materials given the company’s business strategy for resources...
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