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.

After researching, this stage of the inquiry process is centered around students clarifying both their own 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.
The Heick Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.

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.

Social-Emotional Teaching is every bit as important as Social-Emotional Learning. Teaching matters and teachers matter
Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding?
Genius Hour in the classroom is driven by curiosity. Critical principles include inquiry, purpose, socialization, and design.
Our task? Overcome a child’s natural tendency to play, rebel, and self-direct in hopes of providing them with an ‘education.’

The most important critical thinking skills include analysis, synthesis, interpretation, inferencing, and judgement.
Grading problems still surfaced, but with a system in place, it was easier to identify what went wrong and communicate why to students.

The purpose of curriculum is to provide a mutual language to organize and communicate knowledge–and students inherit its implications.

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.

How would it change the learning process to start with a tone of humility? To clarify what can be known, and what cannot?

Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms.