Wendell Berry And Preparing Students For ‘Good Work’
What is the effect of your work? Did you choose your work, or are you doing it under compulsion as the way to earn money?
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An Updated Guide To Questioning In The Classroom
The ability to ask the right question at the right time is a useful indicator of authentic understanding.
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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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How Schools Plan, Fund, and Care for a Piano Program That Lasts
Most school music rooms have at least one piano with a story attached to it. Sometimes it arrived as a donation from a retiring teacher, sometimes it was bought decades ago with money from a long-forgotten bake sale, and sometimes nobody on staff can say where it came from at all. Those instruments tend to…
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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.
