An Updated Guide To Questioning In The Classroom
This guide to questioning in the classroom views questions as signs of understanding, not ignorance–the ability to see what you’re missing.
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The Underlying Assumptions Of A Curriculum
One underlying assumption of a curriculum is that it’s comprised of knowledge and skills that are both knowable and worth knowing.
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What Is Bloom’s Taxonomy? A Definition For Teachers
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a hierarchical classification of cognitive skills used to design instruction, assess learning, and promote higher-order thinking.
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Why Did That Student Fail? A Diagnostic Approach To Teaching
What is Diagnostic Teaching? Diagnostic teaching is a step-by-step, intentional process for pinpointing exactly why a student is struggling.
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Assuming The Best: The Power Of Teaching Through Positive Assumption
Of course, you won’t always be correct but the goal of these kinds of positive assumptions isn’t accuracy, it’s giving children room to grow.
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Research-Based Factors Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment
In a highly effective learning environment, there are opportunities for students to revisit old thinking while grappling with new ideas.
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What Happens When Teachers Connect
When one teacher meets another, they exchange ideas. Comparing and finding common ground and learning new things is nearly automatic.
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12 Authentic Starting Points For Learning
Learning–real, informal, authentic, and lifelong learning–can ‘begin’ with just about anything.
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New Learning: Characteristics Of An Innovative Classroom
From content to thought, linear learning to spiral learning, and grading to micrograding, here are possible characteristics of an innovative classroom.
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4 Levels Of Integration For Critical Thinking
How can you teach critical thinking? This framework offers a way to integrate critical thinking in your classroom.
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Why What Students Don’t Know Is More Important Than What They Do
For me, my biggest takeaway from college was learning what I didn’t know.
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If You Only Teach Students One Thing About Writing
Pre-writing can include clarifying audience and purpose to researching and outlining, making it crucial to the quality of the writing.
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10 Rhetorical Questions To Create New Ideas For Learning
I’m not saying any of these ideas are good—or even the least bit viable. Or that they wouldn’t be detrimental. I’m just wondering what would happen.
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The Impact Of Technology On Curiosity
Understanding the impact of technology on curiosity suggests that we first understand the role of curiosity in the learning process itself.
