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.
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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.
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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.
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8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions
A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.
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The Sync Teaching Method: A Blended Approach To Self-Directed Learning
Second screen learning provides access to personalized content while the teacher guides the lesson. This is the Sync Teaching Method.
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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.
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6 Strategies For Creating An Inquiry-Driven Classroom
Curiosity is a powerful catalyst for learning and using inquiry-based learning can leverage potential. Here are 6 strategies for your classroom.
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Rethinking Grading In A 21st Century Project-Based Learning Environment
Rethinking grading in project-based learning can support students by clarifying complexity and rewarding nuance of understanding.
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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.
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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.
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How To Kill Learner Curiosity In 12 Easy Steps
Killing a learner’s natural curiosity doesn’t happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in rare cases that isn’t long enough.
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How The Lesson Study Approach Can Improve Your Teaching
Lesson study is not about discovering the one right way to teach a lesson but about building knowledge of many teaching models and strategies.
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20 Strategies To Get The Best Work From Your Students
To get the best work from a student, they need to create their own standards for quality academic work–ideally alongside you, as a teacher.
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Audience And Purpose: Who Are You Teaching And Why?
Audience and purpose are elemental. They have to come first or none of it makes any sense. Who are you teaching, and why? Who exactly, and why exactly?
