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Jenny Gilbert

Introduction - 0 views

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persuasion argument english

shared by Jenny Gilbert on 09 May 09 - Cached
  • Jenny Gilbert on 09 May 09
     
    resource pack - interactive for teaching persuasive writing
dougswarners

annotation software ideas? - 18 views

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Leigh Newton

An Introduction to Critical Thinking - 12 views

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thinking critical Critical Thinking english literature writing reading teaching

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  • "It is strange that we expect students to learn, yet seldom teach them anything about learning."
  • "We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think."
  • "Many 17-year-olds do not possess the 'higher-order' intellectual skills we should expect of them. Nearly 40 percent cannot draw inferences from written material; only one-fifth can write a persuasive essay; and only one-third can solve a mathematics problem requiring several steps."
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  • Critical thinking can be described as the scientific method applied by ordinary people to the ordinary world.
  • Critical thinking is a learned ability that must be taught. Most individuals never learn it. Critical thinking cannot be taught reliably to students by peers or by most parents. Trained and knowledgable instructors are necessary to impart the proper information and skills.
  • Critical thinking means correct thinking in the pursuit of relevant and reliable knowledge about the world.
  • Leigh Newton on 02 Sep 10
     
    ""We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think.""
Van Piercy

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      So they were going to a WAC/WID curriculum? Makes sense.
  • a coherent, well-turned paragraph
  • the essay questions were just too difficult. Many would simply write a sentence or two and shut the test booklet.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      So they just didn't know how to think? No one had taught them to think. Cf. Philips-Exeter and the Harkness table.
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  • bad writing
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      The centrality of writing
  • inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      Formalism?
  • on teaching the skills that underlie good analytical writing,
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      The skills underlying good writing--not just formalism?
  • To be able to think critically and express that thinking, it’s where we are going,”
  • the importance of formal writing instruction
  • constructing personal narratives, memoirs, and small works of fiction—
  • write informative and persuasive essays.
  • David Coleman
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      So wait, is Coleman the architect of New Dorp's success? No.
  • Students’ inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays was severely impeding intellectual growth in many subjects
  • teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day
  • DeAngelis
  • ­roughly 40 percent of students are poor, a third are Hispanic, and 12 percent are black
  • Her decision in 2008 to focus on how teachers supported writing inside each classroom was not popular.
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