by edtosavetheworld | May 24, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
The natural sciences have traditionally come the closest to disciplinary thinking by teaching the scientific method and ensuring there are labs in most schools where at least a few times a year the students are able to behave like scientists. There are, however, two...
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 21, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
In yesterday’s post we talked about how different disciplinarians would approach the global issue of pandemics. A scientist might… A mathematician could… A historian would… How does language arts fit into this picture? We don’t normally think about...
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...
