Are You Teaching Content Or Teaching Thought?
If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.
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On The Danger Of Popular Ideas In Education
New ideas, often in the shape of ‘fads,’ are, at best, distractions. It just might be that education already has more than enough new ideas.
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Start With You: How To Make Good Teaching More Sustainable
If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.
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14 Effective Teaching Strategies For Inquiry-Based Learning
One obvious way to promote inquiry learning in your classroom is to design lessons and units that benefit from, promote, or require it.
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8 Things Students Need In Modern Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning needs in the 21st century include socialization, elegant curation, research, pivot points, and other considerations.
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What Role Does Empathy Play In Learning?
The relationship between learning goals & empathy may be unclear. What and why we choose to study are deeply human pursuits.
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18 Inconvenient Truths About Assessment Of Learning
It’s an extraordinary amount of work to design precise and personalized assessments that illuminate pathways forward for individual students.
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Classroom Of The Future: Shifts To Move Tomorrow’s Learning To Today
Shifts to create the classroom of the future include a shift from academic standards to learning networks and single modalities to blended.
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8 Tips For Teaching With Technology For Beginners
Integrating technology into teaching and learning is like adding electricity to architectural design: embedded from the beginning.
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25 Questions To Guide Teaching With Project-Based Learning
Teaching through PBL can benefit greatly from planning ahead. Here are 25 questions to guide teaching with project-based learning.
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Why Education Needs More Than Reform
Disruption in general is about unsettling, often thought of in terms of chaos. Disruptive collaboration is working together to force change.
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Where’s The Innovation In Education Coming From?
Where is the innovation in education coming from? What are its current levels of innovation? What might possibly disrupt it in the future?
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An Inquiry Framework: 5 Levels Of Student Ownership
The 5 inquiry modes itemize the purpose of learning in different domains and identifies the effect of inquiry on student ownership.
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32 Characteristics Of High-Performing Classrooms
We’ve created the following 32 characteristics of high-performing classrooms to help you spot the opportunities for growth in your teaching.
