Critical Literacy Archives

What Are Costa’s Levels Of Questioning?

Education / November 15, 2021 November 12, 2021 / Critical Literacy, Inquiry

Costa’s levels of questioning feature three tiers of questioning designed to promote higher level thinking and inquiry.

Education / August 16, 2021 November 18, 2021 / Critical Literacy

Paulo Freire’s education philosophy saw education as an active process of intellectual, sociological, and political assimilation.

Education / April 26, 2021 April 26, 2021 / Critical Literacy, Terry Heick

Good work is applying your affection, intellect, and specific ‘genius’ on people and places you depend on and that depend on you.

Education / April 5, 2021 November 16, 2021 / Critical Literacy, Terry Heick

With communal constructivism, the goal is not to produce a scientific discovery but to help children respond to & guide their own discovery.

Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.

Education / February 4, 2021 November 8, 2021 / Critical Literacy

As students navigate education, they’re craving chances to make their mark on the world. Here are ways to help them get started with activism.

Teaching / November 4, 2020 November 3, 2021 / Critical Literacy

In helping students understand empathy, teachers give award learners the influence they have always held, but maybe didn’t realize.

Technology / November 2, 2020 November 18, 2021 / Critical Literacy, Equity

Educating students doesn’t have to take the form of a one-sided lecture or reading. In fact, it works better if it doesn’t.

How is education changing? From blended learning to social justice, here are 20 questions to clarify your teaching for 2022.

Texts may be chosen based on their success in the classroom, yet students are not taught how to recognize their utility in their lives.

“Twitter…tends toward superficiality and draws people away from serious communication…(and) is not a medium of a serious interchange.”

Technology / May 17, 2017 November 8, 2021 / Critical Literacy

Texting is where it’s at & ResistBot knows it. Raising your voice can be done soundlessly, & contacting congress can happen in a few clicks.