So not really. There are broad strokes ways to teach critical thinking skills, but (believe it or not) critical thinking is a very higher order skill that is di

So not really. There are broad strokes ways to teach critical thinking skills, but (believe it or not) critical thinking is a very higher order skill that is difficult to transfer across domain areas. It follows a few steps: teach the scientific process, analyze analogies to whatever it is you're approaching, identify appropriate and relevant sources for information and how to assess their reliability/trustworthiness, identify biases including self-biases, and fostering open-mindedness and an ability to evaluate points from multiple perspectives. When you are critically thinking about things, these are the steps you take - quickly, and not in any order that you can identify. But you are doing that. That being said, because these are higher order, abstract skills for the most part, they are very hard to apply across disciplines. You need a level of base knowledge of the area to be able to sort through these steps appropriately. For example, it is easy for me to analyze statements and assess articles related to farming, education, and depression, because I have massive experience with these things. Whereas, I absolutely could not even get through evaluating appropriate sources when it comes to programming languages; I have no experience with them. In other words, it is possible, but it takes a concerted effort in nearly every aspect of the child's life. This is not something we can do JUST in the classroom, especially when parents, often, do not want true critical reasoning in their children; my experience is that if a child can do this effectively s/he is very difficult to keep 'under control'.