by edtosavetheworld | May 23, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
Disciplinary thinking asserts that students need to spend more time behaving like mathematicians, artists, scientists, poets, etc. than they do simply trying to memorize the results of the work of experts in the field. In Stage 2 of our framework we advocate against...
by edtosavetheworld | May 13, 2013 | Our Vision
Have you ever been at a dinner party when this scenario occurred? And what do you do? I’m a teacher. Oh that’s nice…(turns to another person at the party) Unfortunately many of us have had that experience. In the US we have a pretty serious problem with respect...
by edtosavetheworld | May 8, 2013 | Stage 2: Active Processing, Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 3: Critical Thinking, Testing and Assessments
“The first object of any act of learning is that it should serve us in the future.” – Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education, 1960 Bruner’s quote aptly sums up the importance of transfer: the ability to use what we’ve learned in a future...
by edtosavetheworld | May 1, 2013 | Stage 3: Critical Thinking
This post will keep it simple. In the hope of inspiring you to immediately begin asking students to reflect on the quality of their thinking we share a few quotes from students. Reflections from actual students evaluating their writing for intellectual standards using...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 29, 2013 | Stage 3: Critical Thinking
How often do you read a student’s response and think,”Sigh. It’s sort of getting at what I asked but — wow — it’s vague, superficial or missing key ideas?” Or how about students who don’t recognize contradictions in...
