by edtosavetheworld | Dec 19, 2014 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
If you have been in education long enough I guarantee you have heard this phrase: But I have to teach that way – I need to prepare them for college. It’s a sentence we’re heard uttered middle through high school, about all types of teaching: lecturing, high stakes...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 23, 2014 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
In my first years as a teacher, I spent hours and hours preparing for each lesson plan…and we should make sure they are very carefully thought out! But I’ve changed the questions that I ask myself when planning. I used to think… What information or...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 21, 2014 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
Currently, K-12 science education in the United States…does not provide students with engaging opportunities to experience how science is actually done. -National Research Council Stage 4 of our framework emphasizes disciplinary thinking, which includes the ways...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 31, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
How many times have you stood in front of the class with an interesting situation or dilemma and narrated your thoughts aloud for your students so they can hear how you reason through it? If we just “tell” students what experts have “figured...
by edtosavetheworld | Nov 7, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
The world is changing at an unprecedented rate. What jobs will today’s students be doing in 20 years? Are our schools coming even close to preparing them? In an entertaining speech at the IBM Think Forum, Tom Friedman gives us this equation: Globalization +...
