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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. This phase underscores the significance of critical evaluation, research skills, and reasoning.

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6 Degrees of Separation Game for History

Students of History

They encourage critical thinking, creativity, and research skills. They also enhance your students' ability to perceive the intricate web of human history. As you can imagine, are sometimes challenging, but fun for advanced or AP level history students.

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Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

Everywhere we looked, we saw questions of values: The wisdom of environmental engineering toward human wants, the need for electrical power in a northern climate, the mutual desires of each country. These are questions of a sort every thinking person confronts every day. This process begins in our first-year programs.