16 Characteristics Of A Critical Thinking Classroom
How do you know if your students are thinking critically in the classroom? Here are examples that might be good indicators.
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11 Underlying Assumptions Of Digital Literacy
In understanding the shift from literacy to digital literacy, it may help to take a look at the underlying assumptions of digital literacy.
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Knowledge Is Power And Teaching Is The Fuel
Teachers are professionals and their ‘clients’ are children and their function is teaching and their craft is understanding.
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How Do You Teach Social-Emotional Learning?
Social-emotional learning is part of the bedrock of critical literacy: helping them care enough to change themselves.
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The Simplest Way To Slow The Summer Slide
Slowing the ‘summer slide’ through daily reading, writing, and ‘playing’ supports children in developing learning habits that endure.
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12 Things Every Lesson You Teach Should Have
Every lesson plan should have a clear and compelling–and accessible–role for each student during each moment of the lesson.
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15 Reasons Schools Need Post-Progressive Teaching And Learning
Teachers are guides and coaches and content experts. A ‘post-progressive’ teacher would be empowered, not replaced.
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10 Student Engagement Strategies That Empower Learners
One student engagement strategy is to offer diverse pathways through content–pathways students would have to ‘unlock’ to progress.
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50 Crazy Ideas To Change Education [Updated]
Make any politician voting on legislation have to qualify for that right to vote by spending a certain number of hours in the classroom.
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Why Worrying About Screen Time Might Be The Wrong Approach
While screen time certainly matters, focusing only on time is like developing a literacy program that focuses only on ‘minutes read.’
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10 Things I Wish I Knew My First Year Of Teaching
I learned that my classroom wasn’t *my* classroom. Rather, it was a learning space for children. The classroom belonged to them.
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How Schools Can Respond To The Age Of Information
In the Age of Information, data has moved from singular places (here and there) to infinitely plural realities.
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18 Questions To Ask Students About Their Day Remote Learning
What kinds of questions to ask students support what they’ve learned remotely and enhance their ability to apply it?
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The Definition Of Good Work
Good work is applying your affection, intellect, and specific ‘genius’ on people and places you depend on and that depend on you.
