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Questioning - Top Ten Strategies - HuntingEnglishHuntingEnglish - 0 views
StoryCorps | Great Questions - 0 views
Answering Chris's Questions about Student Friendly Learning Goals | transformED - 0 views
Want to Improve Teaching? Listen to Students - 0 views
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Annie Emerson doesn't have to wonder about what it takes to help her kindergarten students learn how to write or do math. They've told her. Several times during the year, the Pinewoods Elementary School teacher asks her students two basic questions: what are ways that I teach you that you like or that are really working for you? What could be changed to help you learn even more? And it turns out even 5-year-olds have plenty to say.
Ethical & Effective Ways to Prepare Students for Testing (MiddleWeb) - 0 views
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"So much rides on the results of standardized tests these days. They're even talking about making student scores worth 50 percent of my own evaluation and using them to determine my pay! I don't want to spend weeks "drilling and killing" my students with test-prep work sheets. What am I supposed to do?" - A teacher's question
Explanations are not enough, we need questions - physicsfocus.org - 1 views
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I recently read a popular science book on a topic that I felt I needed to learn more about. The book was well written, ideas were clearly explained, and I finished the book knowing a lot more about the history of the subject than beforehand. However, I don't feel I understand the key ideas in the book any better. I won't mention the name of the book or the author because this post isn't really about that specific book. It's about how I feel books of this nature often fail to deliver on what they implicitly promise: that you will understand the science contained within their pages.
How to Apply Design Thinking in Class, Step By Step | MindShift - 0 views
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or educators ready to try the idea of design thinking, you'll be glad to know it does not require extensive transformation of your classroom. That said, it can be a transformative experience for all involved. Here, we try to answer your questions about integrating different components of a design learning experience into familiar, pre-existing scenarios that play out in every school.
Poet: I can't answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my own poems - The Was... - 1 views
What Colin Taught Me: Questions, Mentors and Race During Math Time - 0 views
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Each year our kindergarten classrooms fill with eager children. Some students come with quiet dispositions; others are overflowing with things to say. Often the talkative group is told to be a little quieter. Sometimes, particularly if the students are boys of color, their talkative behavior is seen as disruptive and their identity as burgeoning mathematicians is at risk though it has scarcely begun to form. But what happens when we raise the status of talkers during math time?