David Foster Wallace On What It Means To Think
“‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.”–David Foster Wallace
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100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking
What was your mindset going in to the activity? What do you discover about yourself during the learning process?
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5 Ways To Help Students Ask Better Questions
How To Help Students Ask Better Questions There’s nothing I care more about than students, and there are few things I think can serve a student better than being able to ask the right question at the right time. In “Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers,” I said that “Questioning is the art of…
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The Warning Signs Of Teacher Burnout
Teaching has always been an emotional profession, but it the current education climate has created a culture of burnout and stress.
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Using Post-it® Super Sticky Notes To Promote Critical Thinking
How To Use Post-it® Super Sticky Notes To Promote Critical Thinking by TeachThought Staff How can Post-it® Super Sticky Notes be used to promote critical thinking in the STEM high school classroom? Quite effectively, it turns out–especially if you’re familiar with Concept Attainment as a teaching and learning strategy. The Post-it® Brand recently conducted a…
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Promoting STEM Critical Thinking Using Post-it® Super Sticky Notes
Here are ways teachers can use Post-it notes and other products to promote critical thinking in the classroom.
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How Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research
Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research by Jane Healey, Ph.D. I specialize in an odd subject—research. I teach students to select a subject area, pick a topic, craft a question, design a prospectus, follow through on the plans, adapt to obstacles and “interesting” findings, organize results, and create an appropriate outcome that matches the content and…
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The Difference Between Googling And Inquiry-Based Learning
Search is about finding pieces, knowledge is about knowing the potential value of those pieces.
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How Google Impacts The Way Students Think
By ignoring the phases of inquiry learning, premature Googlers often find the information they want rather than the information they need.
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Chasing The Definition Of An Academic Argument
Although many people think that an academic argument is a one-sided attempt at persuasion, it’s really more like a scientific paper.
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A 6-Step Process For Teaching Argument Analysis
The more it is used, the more comfortable they’ll get with the nuance of the structure of the 6-step process,
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A Depth Of Knowledge Rubric For Reading, Writing, And Math
Depth of Knowledge frameworks can be useful for planning curriculum, designing assessments, or making judgments about student reading, writing, and math.
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Alan Watts On Finding Purpose Through Affection
Alan Watts On Finding Purpose Through Affection by TeachThought Staff Alan Watts (b 1915, d. 1973) was a British philosopher and speaker who was interested in translating Eastern philosophy into English. He frequently talked about Zen ideas–impermanence, thought, self, and other Zen-related thinking through the lens of day-to-day living. As a result, his language was…
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25 Ways To Use Pinterest According To Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
This graphic by teachbytes organizes different ideas for using pinterest in the classroom according to Bloom’s revised taxonomy.
