Critical Reading: 50 Sentence Stems To Help Students Talk About What They Read
Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.
Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.
It’s hard to imagine how content-based standards can be the guiding force around which future education is constructed.
There are different kinds of mistakes: careless mistakes, systematic mistakes, misconceptions, etc. Students need help understanding this.
Give me a curriculum based on people–based on their habits and thinking patterns in their native places and a genuine need to understand.
One underlying assumption of a curriculum is that it’s comprised of knowledge and skills that are both knowable and worth knowing.
Second screen learning provides access to personalized content while the teacher guides the core of the lesson. This is Sync Teaching.
Lateral thinking solves problems via a creative approach involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using traditional step-by-step logic.
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.
Rethinking grading in project-based learning can support and encourage students by clarifying complexity and rewarding nuance of understanding.
SQ3R stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review. It is a study strategy for students designed to increase engagement and retention of a text.
By asking students to leave a little learning on a chair by the door on the way out of the classoom, exit slips are an easy way to reflect on learning.
A good school decenters itself–makes its curriculum, policies, and other ‘pieces’ less visible than students and hope and growth.