Good Teachers Stick To The Lines, Great Teachers Inspire New Lines
Great teachers go beyond being ‘good’ by leveraging student curiosity to spark beautiful questions and profound thinking.
How To Design A Wikipedia Writing & Research Assignment
The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for researching credibility.
6 Questions Students Can Use To Guide Their Inquiry-Based Learning
Sylvia Duckworth’s graphic illustrates questions students can use to guide inquiry-based learning ideas that act as a catalyst for curiosity.
10 Benefits Of Inquiry-Based Learning
Among the benefits of inquiry-based learning, requiring the student to take an active role in the process may be the most significant.
4 Questioning Strategies For Effective & Thoughtful Teaching
Questions can be a powerful weapon in a teacher’s arsenal, if applied with diligence. Check out these 4 questioning strategies for yourself.
How To Avoid Pointless Professional Development
Are our professional development Actions all pointing towards our Purpose and Vision? How well are they accomplishing those things?
5 Characteristics Of Project-Based Learning That Works
Aligned thinking, rich inquiry, authenticity, autonomy, and meaningful assessment are characteristics of project-based learning that works.
Are The Questions You’re Asking Important To Your Students…Or Just You?
Many teachers think in terms of Essential Questions. While these are often helpful and important to teachers, are they important to students?
“A brain may seek to produce an output, but a mind wants to play.”
I. Education is both industrial and fundamental; it is the mutual product of both engineering and affection. II. This makes it a human process, full of incredible complexity that mirrors that complexity inside each of us. This, in turn, requires a response that is equally complex and decidedly clever. III. In our first century of…
GMOs: A Timely Inquiry-Based Learning Topic
Do we fully understand the long-term effects of science–and if we don’t, how should that change how we “practice science”?
Creating A Fire For Inquiry Starts At The Beginning
If You Want To Create A Fire For Inquiry, Start At The Beginning by Brian Cleary, oldbrainteacher.com If science is inquiry and inquiry is a fire, when does that fire start? When the world talks about STEM education for the most part they talk around elementary teachers rather than to elementary school teachers. This should not…
How Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research
Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research by Jane Healey, Ph.D. I specialize in an odd subject—research. I teach students to select a subject area, pick a topic, craft a question, design a prospectus, follow through on the plans, adapt to obstacles and “interesting” findings, organize results, and create an appropriate outcome that matches the content and…
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