Prepared by: Joelle Navarro
Student Success
Tools and Learning
Strategies
CIFS 100 Fresh Start Strategies
Week 7
Reflecting through a Critical Eye
7.1 Cultural Wealth Model
7.2 Critical Thinking
7.1.1 Cultural Wealth Model
Why is learning about the Cultural Wealth Model so important within the university setting? Watch the Cultural Wealth
Model Video to learn about its importance.
Aspirational Captial:
The ability to maintain hopes and dreams for the future, even in the face of real
and perceived barriers. This speaks to the resilience of BIPOC students and
their families, who dream of possibilities beyond present circumstances.
Familial Capital
Refers to those cultural knowledges nurtured among familia (kin) that carry a
sense of community history, memory and cultural intuition. This can extend
beyond immediate family members and include community connections
Social Capital
Networks of people and community resources. Peer and social contacts provide
support for students
7.1.2 Cultural Wealth Model
Why is learning about the Cultural Wealth Model so important within the university setting?
Navigational Capital:
Refers to skills of maneuvering through social institutions. It acknowledges
individual agency within institutional constraints, by utilizing resilience to thrive
in stressful environments or events
Resistant Capital
Refers to those knowledge and skills fostered through oppositional behaviour
that challenge inequality and oppressive structures
Linguistic Capital
Includes the intellectual and social skills attained through communication
experiences in more than one language and/or style. BIPOC students arrive to
campus with multiple language and communication skills
7.1.3 Cultural Wealth Model
For more information about how to apply the Cultural Wealth Model, please see this link. Use the wheel to identity the
resources available to you and that empower you to achieve your educational goals.
7.2.1 Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas. It allows us to become
involved in a dialogue with information we read/hear so that we can summarize, analyze, hypothesize, and evaluate ideas we encounter.
Step 1: Questioning and Assessing Information - Clarify your understanding of the
claim or situation
a. What information do we need to answer the question?
b. What conclusions seem justified in light of the facts?
c. What is our point of view? Do we need to consider another?
Step 2: Be Skeptical: Not all sources are objective
a. What is the impact of this person’s view, and how does it relate to their personal
agenda?
b. Are there any explicit or implicit prejudices?
c. Is this a peer-reviewed source?
Step 3: Understanding By Making Connections: Make connections between
concepts (this adds value to knowledge)
a. What does this concept explain?
b. Why is it important?
c. How does it help me in my day to day?
7.2.2 Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas. It allows us to become
involved in a dialogue with information we read/hear so that we can summarize, analyze, hypothesize, and evaluate ideas we encounter.
Step 4: Challenge Your Assumptions:
a. What assumptions did I make in this situation?
b. Why did I make those assumptions?
c. What evidence led me to those assumptions?
d. What am I missing, and what do I need to know more about?
Step 5: Forming Logical Conclusions
Remember to examine all evidence before forming a logical conclusion
Step 6: Reframing and Incorporating Different Perspectives:
a. Think within your discipline: Know, learn, and understand how to use key
concepts
b. Reframe and incorporate different perspectives: This allows you to imagine
alternatives and identify contrasting concepts (think outside the box)
Step 7: Communicating and Clarifying Your Own Thoughts
Can you teach your thoughts/ideas to someone else? If your answer is no:
a. State one point at a time and make your reasons explicit
b. Prove that your reasons are acceptable and sufficient
c. Anticipate objections
How to Study Way More Effectively: The Feynman Technique.
Resources Freedom in Thought. Video.
and Templates How to Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique (Example
Included) .Video.
There are numerous
How to Use the Feynman Technique - Study Tips - How to Study.
templates you can use to be
Video.
successful! Take your pick!
The Feynman Technique
Apply the Plan-Monitor-Evaluate Model for Assessing
Your Learning Progress. KPU. Learning to Learn Online.
Common Sense Education. (2016). What is Bloom’s
Digital Taxonomy?
LSU Center for Academic Success. (2013). Use
Bloom’s to Think Critically.
Sprouts. (2019). Bloom’s Taxonomy: Structuring the
Learning Journey.
Applications and Assistive Technologies
Resources
Index Card - Corkboard Writing
and Templates
There are numerous Freedom
templates you can use to be
successful! Take your pick! StayFocused
SimplyNoise
XMind
5 Study Tools Elevating the 21st Century Student
What is Critical Thinking. Chapan Learning Commons. UBC Learn.
Video.
