26 Sentence Stems For Higher-Level Conversation In The Classroom
During meaningful conversations, students are forced to be accountable for their positions, to listen, and analyze opposing perspectives and ideas.
126 Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Digital Learning
126 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs For Digital Learning by TeachThought Staff You can get a ready-for-the-classroom version of Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy for $6.95. At TeachThought, we’re enthusiastic supporters of any learning taxonomy. (We even created our own, the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy.) Put simply, learning taxonomies help us think about how learning happens. Even if they’re…
25 Alternatives To “I Don’t Know” And “I Can’t”
25 Alternatives To ‘I Don’t Know’ & ‘I Can’t’ by TeachThought Staff At the core of a growth mindset is the willingness to change. While you might want to ‘change’ (e.g., improve), changing your own thinking patterns has to precede any behavioral change (e.g., growth), and language is a big part of that. I can’t…
48 Critical Thinking Questions For Any Content Area
Critical thinking questions include, ‘Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?”
Making Friends: 10 Team-Building Games For Students
Students stand in the middle of the room, then move to either side to indicate their choice: Are you more of a book or a song?
28 Critical Thinking Question Stems For Any Content Area
28 Critical Thinking Question Stems For Any Content Area by TeachThought Staff Critical thinking isn’t a skill, nor is it content knowledge or even evidence of understanding. While it involves and requires these ideas, critical thinking is also very much a state of mind — a willingness and tendency to sit with an idea and…
15 Self-Guided Reading Responses For Non-Fiction Texts
What is the author’s position on a debatable topic from the text? How do you know? What evidence from the text can you cite?
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