Assuming The Best: The Power Of Teaching Through Positive Assumption
Of course, you won’t always be correct but the goal of these kinds of positive assumptions isn’t accuracy, it’s giving children room to grow.
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Research-Based Factors Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment
In a highly effective learning environment, there are opportunities for students to revisit old thinking while grappling with new ideas.
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What Happens When Teachers Connect
When one teacher meets another, they exchange ideas. Comparing and finding common ground and learning new things is nearly automatic.
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12 Authentic Starting Points For Learning
Learning–real, informal, authentic, and lifelong learning–can ‘begin’ with just about anything.
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New Learning: Characteristics Of An Innovative Classroom
From content to thought, linear learning to spiral learning, and grading to micrograding, here are possible characteristics of an innovative classroom.
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4 Levels Of Integration For Critical Thinking
How can you teach critical thinking? This framework offers a way to integrate critical thinking in your classroom.
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Why What Students Don’t Know Is More Important Than What They Do
For me, my biggest takeaway from college was learning what I didn’t know.
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If You Only Teach Students One Thing About Writing
Pre-writing can include clarifying audience and purpose to researching and outlining, making it crucial to the quality of the writing.
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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.
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The Impact Of Technology On Curiosity
Understanding the impact of technology on curiosity suggests that we first understand the role of curiosity in the learning process itself.
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The Difference Between A Good Question And A Bad Question
A question is only a strategy (for inquiry) and must therefore have a purpose if we want to evaluate its quality.
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12 Reasons Students Don’t Read & What You Can Do About It
Students might see reading as something to do at school rather than an opportunity to be entertained, learn, or be exposed to new ideas.
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7 Teaching Secrets For Long-Term Growth
Protecting your planning period by shutting your door isn’t ‘backwards teaching,’ it’s a survival strategy.
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Alternatives To ‘How Was School?”
“What did you learn in school today?” It’s easy to resort to cliches when talking to kids about school. Here are some alternatives.
