by edtosavetheworld | Sep 10, 2015 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
Now that the new school year is underway, I have to keep reminding myself about how to start over. I’m back in the same room teaching the same big ideas, but my students are all novices, starting at ground zero. It seems especially important, then, for me to...
by edtosavetheworld | Sep 8, 2015 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
Everything I read these days points to the need for an interdisciplinary approach to learning. It’s touted to boost engagement and bring coherence to the otherwise jolty school experience most kids endure each day. My favorite rationale for interdisciplinary...
by edtosavetheworld | Aug 21, 2015 | News and Trends, Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
I’m enrolled in a couple online workshops to learn more about the International Baccalaureate Program and yesterday had to watch the this Tedx Talk by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs who asserts that the current curriculum is preparing kids for 1992. It’s a fairly...
by edtosavetheworld | Aug 5, 2015 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
Knowledge does not fall from the sky. Someone discovers it! There are complex processes that are essential to the functioning of each discipline — and they take years to cultivate! How do we help students to build their understanding and use of these processes?...
by edtosavetheworld | May 18, 2015 | News and Trends, Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
Due to my husband’s job, we move around a lot. Like to West Africa and South America. So I thought it would be a good idea to get to know the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program. I’ve been reading about the course called Theory of Knowledge and I went...
by edtosavetheworld | May 14, 2015 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
Imagine the following classroom assignment: Explain the causes and impacts of the Great Influenza outbreak of 1918 Photo credit:http://www.jhsph.edu/sebin/f/l/bluedeath1.jpg If we want to save the world, we need to learn to prevent (or at least very effectively treat)...
