Rethinking Critical Thinking – ILETA Monthly Meetup 30 March 2026

Critical thinking is one of the skills we most often say we want our students to develop. But what do we really mean by critical thinking?

In legal and professional contexts, critical thinking is often misunderstood as simply criticizing an argument or finding weaknesses in someone else’s position. In reality, it is much more than that.

Critical thinking involves asking better questions:
• What assumptions are being made?
• What evidence supports this claim?
• What perspectives might be missing?
• What would change my mind?

For Legal English practitioners, this matters. When we design activities around cases, contracts, negotiations, or legal problems, we are not just teaching language—we are helping learners practice how lawyers actually think.

In this month’s ILETA Monthly Trainers’ Meetup, we will explore how we can move beyond surface-level discussion and design tasks that genuinely develop critical thinking in Legal English classrooms.

This meeting will be led by Agnieska A Chojecka who makes this proposal:

“Let’s think about critical thinking more critically.
How is it integrated into Legal English classes, and what purpose does it really serve?
Do we sometimes take it for granted because of the legal content we work with?

I’d like to start a discussion on how we can exploit it even better and treat it as a framework that strengthens our students’ memory and learning.“

Join us for a practical and collaborative conversation with colleagues from around the world.

Details of the ILETA Monthly Trainers’  March MeetUP are:

• Date: 30 March 2026

• Time: 13.30 pm to 14.30 pm (CEST)

• Where:Zoom meeting 

• Cost:Free for Bronze & Basic Members

Registration link: Registration-ILETA March 2026 MeetUP

Biography – Agnieszka A. Chojecka (Ms)

Agnieszka is an independent English tutor with over 24 years of experience designing courses for legal, financial, and business English learners. Her lifelong passion for creating her own study materials resulted in the launch of a unique website for legal English enthusiasts – www.legalenglishboost.com.

She studied English Philology at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, Poland. Since 2004, she has worked exclusively with legal and financial professionals, designing individual and group courses for well-established Polish law firms and the legal departments of international companies in Poland.

Outside of work, she reads voraciously about recent developments in psychology, neurolinguistics and memorisation techniques. She actively explores the Socratic method of teaching in the classroom. 

Agnieszka is also the ILETA Country Ambassador for Poland and a member of the ILETA Scientific Committee.