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.
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How To Create A Forward-Leaning Curriculum
It’s hard to imagine how content-based standards can be the guiding force around which future education is constructed.
9 Ways To Help Students Learn Through Their Mistakes
There are different kinds of mistakes: careless mistakes, systematic mistakes, misconceptions, etc. Students need help understanding this.
Knowledge Demands Change Faster Than Every Other Part Of Education
Give me a curriculum based on people–based on their habits and thinking patterns in their native places and a genuine need to understand.
The Underlying Assumptions Of A Curriculum
One underlying assumption of a curriculum is that it’s comprised of knowledge and skills that are both knowable and worth knowing.
The Sync Teaching Method: A Blended Approach To Self-Directed Learning
Second screen learning provides access to personalized content while the teacher guides the core of the lesson. This is Sync Teaching.
3 Modes Of Thinking: Lateral, Divergent & Convergent Thought
Lateral thinking solves problems via a creative approach involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using traditional step-by-step logic.
10 Rhetorical Questions To Create New Ideas For Learning
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 A 21st Century Project-Based Learning Environment
Rethinking grading in project-based learning can support and encourage students by clarifying complexity and rewarding nuance of understanding.
What Is SQ3R? A Definition For Teachers
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.
15 Reflection Strategies To Help Students Retain What You Just Taught Them
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.
The Characteristics Of A Good School
A good school decenters itself–makes its curriculum, policies, and other ‘pieces’ less visible than students and hope and growth.