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Critical and Creative Thinking for active learning
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Ideas for teachers to question, motivate and grow a 'culture of inquiry'
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Wildwood IB World Magnet School uses the inquiry-based model to put students in charge of their learning, with lessons that stem from student questions and harness the power of curiosity.
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Putting Students In Charge of Their Learning...Through inquiry, Wildwood works to ignite passion, inspire relevance, and develop ownership in their students. Using student inquiries and questions as guidance, teachers develop lessons that engage and excite, teaching their students to be active thinkers rather than passive learners
Pam Thompson's curator insight,
March 11, 2016 7:00 PM
Putting Students In Charge of Their Learning...Through inquiry, Wildwood works to ignite passion, inspire relevance, and develop ownership in their students. Using student inquiries and questions as guidance, teachers develop lessons that engage and excite, teaching their students to be active thinkers rather than passive learners
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The core routines are a set of seven or so routines that target different types of thinking from across the modules. These routines are easy to get started with and are commonly found in Visible Thinking teachers' toolkits. Try getting started with with one of these routines.
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Fantastic thinking routines for Inquiry Learning...to encourage your students to pose questions, wonder and explore. Start with the See, Think, Wonder activity.
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INQUIRING ABOUT INQUIRY Lehmann said it’s important to question whether alleged “personalized,” “project-based,” or “collaborative” learning efforts are actually helping students and teachers to “hold ourselves in a state of questioning.”
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“Inquiry means living in the soup. Inquiry means living in that uncomfortable space where we don’t know the answer.” I like the 'soup' analogy used here...what do YOU think about Inquiry Learning?
Pam Thompson's curator insight,
March 11, 2016 7:00 PM
“Inquiry means living in the soup. Inquiry means living in that uncomfortable space where we don’t know the answer.” I like the 'soup' analogy used here...what do YOU think about Inquiry Learning?
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Critical thinking includes reflectiNG on your learning...here are 40 questions via Edutopia
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This approach for K-12 students was developed about 20 years ago by the co-founders of Visual Thinking Strategies, a nonprofit based in New York that provides training in the method to schools and art museums. More recently, the nonprofit has introduced the concept to pre-K classes. The method aligns with the Common Core approach to learning.
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Teachers using classic works of art to inspire some of the youngest students to observe closely, think critically and discuss respectfully. The visual thinking method asks three questions of young students: What’s going on in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find?
Two Feet & a Heartbeat's curator insight,
June 4, 2015 2:03 AM
Art is there for interpretation. perhaps your students should engage with art installations
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One educator rethinks Bloom's Taxonomy because it gives the impression that there is a scarcity of creativity in students.
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Asking a question can be a scary step into the void. How do you create a culture of using questioning in the classroom?
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Does your school have a 'culture of questioning'? Love this article and graphic illustrating five ways of making it happen in your classroom.
Pam Thompson's curator insight,
March 11, 2016 7:03 PM
Does your school have a 'culture of questioning'? Love this article and graphic illustrating five ways of making it happen in your classroom. 
Frances Foote's curator insight,
June 15, 2016 2:45 PM
In order to make life-long learners, scholars must make questioning a habit. Oftentimes scholars are afraid to ask questions, for fear of being wrong. These 5 ways to help scholars become better questioners help alleviate those fears. Scholars need to feel safe when asking questions - here are 5 ways to help make that happen.
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50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think
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Thinking about your thinking...visible thinking and questioning! The journey of a lifelong learner..."What makes you say that?"
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New research suggests that curiosity triggers chemical changes in the brain that help students better understand and retain information.
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Curiosity...one of my favourite topics! Why? In my experience, when kids are curious, they’re much more likely to stay engaged. Read on if you're 'curious' to know why?
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Project- and play-based learning are essential in the early grades to develop creative learning dispositions during the brain's most active period of synaptic growth.
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Wise words here, "A strong house must be built upon a solid foundation. We must nurture children's minds in early learning through play, wonder, imagination, and exploration to ensure success as they move forward in their learning careers" ...and not just for early learners!
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25 Question Stems Framed Around Bloom's Taxonomy
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Create engaging tasks and assess questioning skills with this useful template to stimulate high order thinking and inquiry in your classroom.
Carla Joyner's curator insight,
May 2, 2016 8:34 AM
Lesson planning and the use of questioning is critical to classroom management. It is not just how you handle discipline, but how you run your class to eliminate discipline problems.
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Written by a team of 27 students at Sandvika High School (Oslo, Norway), with support from teacher Ann Michaelsen, Connected Learners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Global Classroom is a unique compendium of stories, advice and how-to articles designed to help high school teachers and their students around the globe shift from classrooms that are isolated and teacher-centered to digitally rich environments where learning is student-driven and constantly connected to the global internet.
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Project-based learning at its best...this book represents the culmination of a student learning project supported by English teacher and international blogger Ann Michaelsen,
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'Imagine a world where...' is a great discussion starter. Here we have a fantastic 6 hat activity by @russeltarr via @ActiveHistory to engage your students on the topic of 'Racism'.
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What students say and do and create are products of thought processes that, more or less, are predictable–and of significant potential if we can make those processes visible. The question becomes then, what should we make visible, how, and to whom?
Pam Thompson's curator insight,
March 11, 2016 7:00 PM
What students say and do and create are products of thought processes that, more or less, are predictable–and of significant potential if we can make those processes visible. The question becomes then, what should we make visible, how, and to whom?
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How to use open-ended, close-ended, and a double question technique to inspire deeper thinking in your students.
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Posing questions can feature in all learning areas...check out the AC Critical Thinking Continuum to see the developmental scope of questioning as part of the Inquiry Process.
Pam Thompson's curator insight,
March 11, 2016 7:01 PM
Posing questions can feature in all learning areas...check out the AC Critical Thinking Continuum to see the developmental scope of questioning as part of the Inquiry Process.
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Stop asking all the questions in your classroom and usurping the "right to wonder" by teaching students to ask deeper Bloom's-friendly questions of their own.
Maree Whiteley's insight:
So many reasons why every teacher should read this article...posing questions is an essential skill for our students to harness their curiosity and wonder...too much 'teacher talk' limits classroom opportunities for critical and creative thinking.
Charles Fischer's curator insight,
November 22, 2014 6:35 PM
I love the idea of the "Right to Wonder!" Students definitely need opportunities to think and wonder, to follow their quest-ions. Socratic seminar is a perfect place to practice!
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We’ve clarified the difference between projects and project-based learning before. Projects are about the product, while project-based learning is about the process.
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It's all about the learning...Projects are generally teacher-directed, universal, and tangent to the learning, while project-based learning is student-centered, personal, and the learning pathway itself. Put simply, it is an approach to learning rather than something to complete.
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Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb. They pressure teachers to make kindergartens and nurseries more like schools. So does the law—the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act explicitly...
Maree Whiteley's insight:
Very thought-provoking article that reaffirms what I truly believe..."direct instruction made the children less curious and less likely to discover new information...does it also make children less likely to draw conclusions...or make them less creative?
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View GroupMap's exciting range of group decision making templates here by clicking on each template or category to reveal the one that suits you the most.
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Great resource to 'organise thinking'...Thanks to the folks at GroupMap
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For years, Finland has been the by-word for a successful education system, perched at the top of international league tables for literacy and numeracy.
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Teaching by topic not subject...high level integration of learning. Yet another level of education reform from Finland which we will be watching closely...Given our Australian Curriculum (with eight clearly defined Learning Areas) could this work at your school?
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Great ideas to start 'wonderings' in your Inquiry classroom...
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The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking
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Great idea to stimulate critical thinking at all levels, every classroom
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"Once you have learned how to ask relevant and appropriate questions, you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know." Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner
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Students engage more passionately when trying to answer a question that interests them. Here are ten opening questions that have inspired this kind of learning.
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"Our minds are set up to not care about answers unless they have a question. What makes a great question?" A wealth of ideas here to promote YOUR critical thinking as a classroom teacher ������
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For educators who believe that the worksheet is a necessary tool for learning, this website provides stimulating yet easy ways to replace worksheets while still gauging comprehension. These methods allow scholars to become enthralled in deep and meaningful learning experiences through creative methods.