The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking
What’s The Question Game? A playful way to help students learn to ask the right question at the right time–with a paper cube.
What’s The Question Game? A playful way to help students learn to ask the right question at the right time–with a paper cube.
5 Things Teachers Can Do To Help Students Make Meaning contributed by Kelsey Skaggs, MIND Research Institute Rigor gets a bad reputation. It’s that thing that makes life difficult and uncomfortable. Apply it to a person and they can be seen as inflexible or unyielding. However, bring a certain type of rigor into the classroom and…
Using the right question at the right time can not evaluate understanding but can help students think about what they think.
Digital learning allows students to grasp concept more quickly to connect theory & application more adeptly to engage in learning.
What Students Don’t Know Is More Important Than What They Do by Terry Heick For me, my biggest takeaway from college was learning what I didn’t know. So many passionate, crazy-smart people–teachers and students–that modeled for me learning as I hadn’t seen it before. Entire courses on single ideas I wouldn’t have given a second…
Like anything else in your classroom, promoting critical thinking skills is a matter of planning, priority, and practice.
Critical thinking questions include, ‘Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?”
Critical thinking questions depend on what’s being ‘thought about,’ but one universal example includes, ‘How do I know what I think I know?’
The purpose of these critical thinking question stems is to help students practice willingness to sit with an idea and struggle wonderfully.
The Heick Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.
Among the benefits of inquiry-based learning, requiring the student to take an active role in the process may be the most significant.
Every school is a think tank. Every school, by design, opens it doors to the brightest developing minds a community has to offer.
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