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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

What are some of the most common types of questions? What are the categories of questions? This led to many dozens of answers.

Realize that the school year is a marathon, not a series of sprints. You have longer than you think to help students learn.

Key questions include, “What’s worth understanding?” and more importantly, “What’s worth doing with what I come to understand?”

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy is an update that, among other changes, revised the language and hierarchy of the Cognitive Process Dimension.

Can we design a school that’s more inherently sustainable? That can’t ‘fail’? That’s not full of push and pull but hope and curiosity?

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

How have teaching and learning changed? What is ‘modern pedagogy’? What are its factors and characteristics and domains?

It’s hard to imagine how content-based standards can be the guiding force around which future education is constructed.

Teaching / January 7, 2021 February 7, 2021 / Essential, Growth Mindset, New Teacher

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.

Learning / December 6, 2020 July 10, 2021 / Essential, Terry Heick

One underlying assumption of a curriculum is that it’s comprised of knowledge and skills that are both knowable and worth knowing.

Technology / September 6, 2020 February 11, 2021 / Essential, Learning Models, Terry Heick

Second screen learning provides access to personalized content while the teacher guides the core of the lesson. This is Sync Teaching.