11 Personalized Learning Strategies That Work
A choice board is a simple personalized learning tool that provides scaffolding, tiering, use of Bloom’s, multiple learning styles, and more.
How To Teach Empathy In The Classroom
Want to teach students empathy? Start by helping students themselves not, “How am I unique?” but rather “How are we the same?”
How Class Learning Is Different Than Real-World Learning
In school, learning is externally prompted by a quality judge, rather than curiosity, genius, or intended application in real-world learning.
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.
Create A Curriculum That Questions The Purpose Of Knowledge
The purpose of curriculum is to provide a mutual language to organize and communicate knowledge–and students inherit its implications.
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.
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
The shift toward a fluid, formless, socialized nature of information, thought, and belief is a not a small one.
63 Things Every Student Should Know In A Digital World
In an increasingly digital world, the things a student needs to know are indeed changing–sometimes drastically.
The Relationship Between Quality And Effect
What is the relationship between quality and effect? It’s partly causal but that’s not exactly it. But there is clearly interdependence.
What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read
Some readers may think they dislike the process of reading but everyone loves ideas–and reading is a wonderful strategy to find them.
Critical Thinking Is A Mindset
Critical thinking is certainly a ‘skill’ but when possessed as a mindset–a playful and humble willingness–it shifts from a labor to an art.
Is Great Teaching Sustainable?
Good teaching is addicting–a kind of magic. It’s also unsustainable by the standards we’ve created for schools and teachers.
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