How To Avoid Pointless Professional Development
Are our professional development Actions all pointing towards our Purpose and Vision? How well are they accomplishing those things?
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5 Characteristics Of Project-Based Learning That Works
Aligned thinking, rich inquiry, authenticity, autonomy, and meaningful assessment are characteristics of project-based learning that works.
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“A brain may seek to produce an output, but a mind wants to play.”
I. Education is both industrial and fundamental; it is the mutual product of both engineering and affection.
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GMOs: A Timely Inquiry-Based Learning Topic
Do we fully understand the long-term effects of science–and if we don’t, how should that change how we “practice science”?
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Creating A Fire For Inquiry Starts At The Beginning
If You Want To Create A Fire For Inquiry, Start At The Beginning by Brian Cleary, oldbrainteacher.com If science is inquiry and inquiry is a fire, when does that fire start? When the world talks about STEM education for the most part they talk around elementary teachers rather than to elementary school teachers. This should not…
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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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36 Core Teacher Apps For Inquiry Learning With iPads
St Oliver Plunkett Primary School has shared two images that can help you populate your iPad with apps that support inquiry-based learning.
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How Simple Artifacts Can Promote Inquiry-Based Learning
What Simple Artifacts Can Promote Inquiry-Based Learning? contributed by John Barell, morecuriousminds The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has an exciting department, the Artifact Lab, that can serve as a model for inquiry and inquiry-based learning. Among other examples, curators show us how they prepare mummies for exhibitions. One object that arouses my curiosity is…
