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Welcome to November!
Deeper Thinking and Learning
Resource: Critical Thinking is a 21st-century Essential
From a Ted Ed blog by Mary Halton, "If we want children to thrive in our complicated world, we need to teach them how to think, says educator Brian Oshiro. And we can do it with 4 simple questions." CLICK HERE to read the post.
Authentic Work
Resource: 6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students
From Rebecca Alber for Edutopia, "Let’s start by agreeing that scaffolding a lesson and differentiating instruction are two different things. Scaffolding is breaking up the learning into chunks and providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk." Want to learn more? CLICK HERE.
Resource: Drawing for Formative Assessment
The subtitle of this article is: Asking middle and high school students to sketch something they’re learning can give teachers a clear sense of what they do and don’t understand. Want to give it a try? CLICK HERE to read the article.
Student Agency and Personalization
In this post, Terry Heick writes, "Discerning this good work–one’s life work–requires self-knowledge and wisdom that both precede and transcend content knowledge. If we insist on the latter, it absolutely has to be in service of the former." To read the entire piece, CLICK HERE.
Technology Infusion
A tool to create infographics, posters, fliers, and more. Sign up for free. These tools would be a great way to organize information in an eye-catching way to increase student engagement. Use for vocabulary or pros and cons or statistics for student use - there are plenty of templates available. Or, you could have students create the products using their content material. In this context, the tool would work well as an assessment or for a group project.
Additional resources you might enjoy:
Habits of Mind can lead to success in mastery of standards
10 Learning Strategies for Modern Pedagogy
Why You Should Bring Podcasts into your Classroom
Rowan County Gifted Program
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