Critical Thinking: Beneficial For Students

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Critical-thinking is so beneficial for the students because it helps them think beyond the usual. To develop good critical-thinking in our students we need to allocate sufficient instructional time, so the students will get the hand of it. Also, a lot of modeling and demonstration will help the students develop critical thinking.

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