Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Reading logs are a controversial topic. One of the biggest complaints I hear about traditional reading logs is that it takes the joy out of reading when you are forced to keep track of what you are reading. I find that this is an added incentive to get those reluctant readers to buy in. I occupy the middle ground on this one.

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Cultures Controversial Topics Library Tradition 199

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Connect, Extend, Challenge” routine. To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea. This promotes critical thinking and historical empathy.

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Controversial Topics Critical Thinking Cultures Social Studies 131

Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe? ” I thought some background for people like my friend might be useful.

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Controversial Topics Psychology Elementary School Pedagogy 52

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Increasing the self-knowledge, esteem and confidence of our young people builds resilience and skill in tackling controversial topics and issues, as detailed earlier by Chowdhury.* The word ‘respect’ appears many times throughout this chapter and used extensively by Chowdury when talking about tackling controversial issues.*

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Human Rights Geography Humanities Controversial Topics 40

Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

As I noted in a previous blog post , our information landscape is changing both rapidly and drastically. School leaders also must create safe spaces for teaching and learning about controversial topics. And that means rethinking some organizational and technological practices.

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Controversial Topics Government Tradition Leadership 94