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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10 Of Our Best Articles About Classroom Management For Teachers
We’ve compiled our best articles on classroom management for novice & experienced teachers to refresh their skills & reframe their thinking.
50 Sentence Stems for Reading Critically
Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.
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.
15 Questions Students Can Ask Themselves When Learning New Content
When introducing students to new content, the right questions and language can help disarm uncertainty and encourage a growth mindset.
Characteristics Of A Good School
A good school decenters itself–makes its curriculum, policies, and other ‘pieces’ less visible than students and hope and growth.
The Two Minds Of An Educator
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
An Innovative Learning Model: How To Sync Your Classroom
Learning in a synced classroom requires the ability to engage the same core material and the ability to engage the material independently.
How Disruption Innovation in Education Creates Lasting Change
One goal for disruption in education could be the ongoing emergence of new ideas–new learning models, content, new strategies and thinking.
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.
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers
Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.
Here’s What Students Do Better Than Teachers
Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.