50 Critical Thinking Strategies For Learning
Critical thinking strategies often employ multiple data sources and perspectives in pursuit of understanding.
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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The Difference Between Assessment Of And Assessment For Learning
Assessment for learning is commonly referred to as formative assessment–that is, assessment designed to inform instruction.
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6 Alternatives To Bloom’s Taxonomy For Teachers [Updated]
Why might you need alternatives to Bloom’s Taxonomy? While wonderful, it neglects important ideas that see the whole child.
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The Difference Between Children And Students
Schools long ago broke the world into categories and gamified its study with points, letter grades, and notions of progress and collaboration.
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Teaching Disruptively
Teaching disruptively helps create learners who ask the right question at the right time for reasons that matter to them.
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Advocating For Critical Thinking Amid Social Tension
Education seeks to empower individuals, enabling them to think critically, embrace learning, and better themselves and their communities.
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What Is Cognitive Dissonance? A Definition For Teaching
Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort that arises when an individual encounters a conflict between what they believe and how they behave, or between two competing beliefs.
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30 Examples Of Technology In Education
Examples of education tech include mobile devices, adaptive learning algorithms, the cloud, podcasting, and virtual reality.
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7 Teaching Secrets For Long-Term Growth
Protecting your planning period by shutting your door isn’t ‘backwards teaching,’ it’s a survival strategy.
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Teaching Is Human Work. Systems Aren’t Built for That.
Teachers are the great translators of learning–mediators that speak in binary code for the system and in human tongue for the children.
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Developing Confident Students Using Gradual Release Of Responsibility
To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you?
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The Best Source Of Education Research Is Your Classroom
Education research is great, but it has nothing on what you are able to see every day within your classroom.
