by juliakbriggs | Aug 21, 2021 | Julia Briggs, Life as an LTT Educator, LTT
An aha! moment When educators are new to LTT, we often encourage them to “just give it a go”. As a team, we have worked hard to create and develop a wide variety of resources, examples and guidance for everything from learning experience strategies to whole-school...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 14, 2015 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
You’ve read all the books (or at least a few blog posts) on concept-based curriculum. You’ve reoriented your lessons to serve conceptual goals. You’ve sketched out the most important facts, topics, concepts, and theories for each unit. You have...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 8, 2015 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
Last week we posted a general outline of teaching students to learn conceptually. Today we apply the outline to an actual class — 6th grade social studies. Here’s the context: The teacher worries that it might feel abrupt to suddenly begin being explicit...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 1, 2015 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
NOTE: This blog, as all our other blogs on conceptual learning, is based on the work of H. Lynn Erickson and Lois A. Lanning. Planning is done. You have around 3 – 5 powerful statements of conceptual relationships, a conceptual lens, questions that lead to...
by edtosavetheworld | Sep 17, 2015 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
Once you have a beautifully written statement of conceptual relationships, or even if you don’t(!), you can still be a concept-based teacher if you follow this simple advice: Much like Optimus Prime transforms himself from a semi-truck to an all-powerful robot...
