Mateja Drnovšek,  OŠ Polje

We introduced the skill of critical thinking in classroom with EUfolio project. With the help of formative assessment, we tried to promote a sense of responsibility for students own work and progress. At history lessons we achieved that with asking questions. Questions were designed by students between learning old lessons and confrontation with new educational material. In the beginning we introduced them with tips of questions, differences between questions and what we expect for answer. In groups they formed question which were used in written test as well as oral questioning. Students upgraded asking questions by making their own worksheets. They set the criteria of good worksheet and made it. Together we reviewed all the worksheets and based on their criteria evaluated them. With the help of electronic tool Mahara and tab my learning in e-Portfolio student determinate their knowledge, set goals and strategies to achieve this goal. Because they worked in groups they learned from each other, discovered that they think differently, that for some of them closed questions are easier then open types of questions that some of them are more visual types and they need visual material and others are better critical thinkers. They also gained a sense of responsibility for their decisions and actions.