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Taking a Leap of Faith Toward Inquiry

C3 Teachers

This blog post delves into the power of inquiry to transform traditional classrooms into dynamic spaces of discovery, fostering critical thinking and lifelong learning skills. Deeper learning : We talk about critical thinking a lot, but inquiry is that process, and it pays off for students outside of the social studies classroom.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Of course, we can talk about pedagogy and state standards, but teaching is a people profession. That's always been my ‘why.’

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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

As they do this, I want the students to be active in the learning process and I want them to be critical, but I don’t want to influence them so much that I do the work for them or crush their spirits. First, using Wiggins and McTighe’s (2005) Understanding by Design (UbD), I created what I call a UbD strand.

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What 2015 Holds for the Future of Education

Digital Promise

More importantly, I'd like to see those competencies focus on the skills needed in a globalized, information-rich economy – skills like empathy, collaboration, information literacy, critical thinking, resourcefulness, communication, and creativity.” ” Melissa Gedney. League of Innovative Schools. Project Manager.

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OPINION: Our schools must figure out a way to teach this presidential election

The Hechinger Report

Three states — Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts — have in recent years revamped their social studies and civic education standards and have created legislation to implement modern civic education. Spend some time on news literacy and Civic Online Reasoning.