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.
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The Two Minds Of An Educator
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
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Teaching Students To See Quality
So what does quality have to do with learning? Quite a bit, it turns out. And it starts out with helping students understand what it means.
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4 Phases Of Inquiry-Based Learning: A Guide For Teachers
After researching, this stage of the inquiry process is centered around students clarifying both their own thinking.
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Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking
We can address a deficit of critical thinking by embedding into the architecture of education. This can be accomplished in any number of ways.
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6 Domains Of Cognition: The Heick Learning Taxonomy
The Heick Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.
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Why So Many Students Think They Dislike Reading
Reading is personal but we often focus on the mechanics instead of the people and the strategies instead of the living and breathing happening around us.
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8 Strategies Your Teaching More Enjoyable This Year
Social-Emotional Teaching is every bit as important as Social-Emotional Learning. Teaching matters and teachers matter
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Teaching Critical Thinking Starts With The Student
Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding?
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Genius Hour In The Classroom: 6 Principles
Genius Hour in the classroom is driven by curiosity. Critical principles include inquiry, purpose, socialization, and design.
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Teach Students To Think Irrationally
Our task? Overcome a child’s natural tendency to play, rebel, and self-direct in hopes of providing them with an ‘education.’
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8 Of The Most Important Critical Thinking Skills
The most important critical thinking skills include analysis, synthesis, interpretation, inferencing, and judgement.
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How I Eliminated (Almost) All Grading Problems In My Classroom
Grading problems still surfaced, but with a system in place, it was easier to identify what went wrong and communicate why to students.
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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.
