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 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)...
by edtosavetheworld | May 14, 2014 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking, Testing and Assessments
By now you’ve been asking students to think like disciplinarians for quite some time. You’ve modeled for them with a think aloud. You’ve asked them to coach each other using discipline specific questions. You’ve designed activities and...
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 5, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
This week as we turn our focus to disciplinary thinking, we ask ourselves, How do we get kids to think like experts in each respective field? How can students think like mathematicians in math class and literary critics in English class? How can they behave as...
