Using Logical Fallacies to Improve Learning, Teaching, and Behaviour.
A Guide for Teachers – 212 pages in paperback
A practical handbook for teachers who want to sharpen thinking, guide behaviour, and deepen learning—one logical fallacy at a time.
Are you tired of circular arguments, student excuses that don’t hold up, or classroom debates that go nowhere?
“Everyone else is doing it!” —– “You’re always picking on me”
Logical Fallacies in the Classroom offers a fresh and practical approach to transforming these moments into rich teaching opportunities. This essential teacher resource helps you recognise, respond to, and use logical fallacies constructively to improve your teaching practice, support student behaviour, and strengthen critical thinking school-wide.
Packed with clear explanations, and easy-to-use templates, this book is your guide to:
- Teaching students how to think more clearly and argue more effectively
- Managing behaviour by helping students reflect on their reasoning
- Responding calmly and logically to student excuses and disruptions
- Building a positive classroom culture that values respectful debate and sound logic
- Creating learning environments where thinking is just as important as content
Whether you’re leading a class discussion, de-escalating a conflict, or helping students prepare persuasive writing, this book gives you the tools to engage minds and foster meaningful dialogue.
What’s Inside?
- A breakdown of the most common logical fallacies in the classroom
- Strategies for following and probing student arguments
- Techniques to encourage metacognition and self-reflection
- Ideas for building critical thinking into your curriculum
- Filled with examples for use in many subjects across the curriculum, worksheets, templates, class and student activities, team projects, lesson plans, conversation maps and discussion starters, rubrics, and a school-wide strategy plan and staff discussion and learning session.
Contents:
- Understanding Logical Fallacies in Education
- Common Logical Fallacies Teachers Encounter
- Teaching Students to Think Critically
- Developing Metacognitive Awareness
- Following and Probing Student Arguments
- Managing Behaviour Using Critical Thinking
- Strengthening Teaching Practice
- Creating a Thinking School Culture
- Tools, Templates, and Resources
- Further Reading and Online Tools
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Empower your students. Strengthen your teaching. Shape better conversations.
Unlock the thinking potential in your classroom with Logical Fallacies in the Classroom.
Product details
Format: Softcover
Publisher : Independently published
Publication date : June 2, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 212 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8286182671
Item Weight : 13.4 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.48 x 9 inches
If you would like more than 5 copies, we can offer you these at $29.95 each. contact us to arrange an invoice stating your name, school and quantity. On paying for 5 or more copies, you will also get access to the Google Doc versions of all the worksheets and templates to copy and share in your school.
Books are shipped upon payment.
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