The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. Weve all been there. These ideas have revived interest in E.D.

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

So, it is crucial to teach students about the voting process and its importance to our democracy. When teaching voting in the social studies classroom, students need to be civically engaged to understand how voting is essential to our democracy. Thankfully, incredible resources are ready to go when teaching about the election!

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Social Studies Teaching Lesson Plan Civic Engagement 235

TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of spending seven to twelve hours per week creating instructional content, access to high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) allows teachers to focus on what truly matters: teaching and engaging students in meaningful, impactful lessons. The materials promote rigor and depth of learning.

Civics 98

Civics Teaching Civic Engagement Social Studies 98

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

Packed with practical examples, research-based strategies, and stories, any educator can find the most effective way to personalize learning. Here is the synopsis: Not Just One Way Are you an educator stuck in the traditional teaching or leadership mold, yearning for a spark to reignite your passion?

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Tradition Critical Thinking Cultures Leadership 409

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2024

Relevant thinking in an educational context refers to connecting new knowledge and skills to real-world situations, making learning applicable to students' lives and future careers. It involves critical thinking directly related to personal experiences, societal issues, or practical applications.

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Critical Thinking Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Cultures 464

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In teaching, Kairos often happens when students connect ideas in their own unique ways and at their own pace. ’ See also Critical Thinking Is A Mindset In practical terms, learning velocity is the pace at which a student processes, absorbs, and applies knowledge.

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Lesson Plan Critical Thinking K-12 Teaching 268

NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). These regional grants will help fund projects that expand and explore innovative methods of teaching and learning with Library of Congress materials.

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Library Primary Sources Museum Historic Sites 130

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 10, 2018

The University of Sheffield provides the following synopsis that validates the importance of this pedagogical strategy: Reflective learning is a way of allowing students to step back from their learning experience to help them develop critical thinking skills and improve future performance by analyzing their experience. Hatton, N., &

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Critical Thinking Research 402

Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

The educational model was started in medical schools where clinical scenarios required students to think practically and collaboratively to develop important critical thinking skills. The virtual mystery web-tool: An online hybridized problem-based learning teaching tool created by students for students. Fukuzawa, S.

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Archaeology Anthropology Museum Pedagogy 264

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 109

TeachThought

JUNE 5, 2024

If the ultimate goal of education is to teach students to think, then focusing on how we can help students ask better questions themselves might make sense, no? Follow-Up : Use the questions generated from the Think-Pair-Share activity to guide further inquiry, research projects, or class discussions.

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Critical Thinking Tradition Artifacts Cultures 328

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2011

As a science teacher I routinely utilized case studies as they provided a relevant context to what I was teaching. Claire Davis and Elizabeth Wilcock conducted an excellent literature review and created a phenomenal resource called Teaching Materials Using Case Studies. and higher-order thinking skills (i.e.

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TeachThought

MARCH 30, 2024

“He was Research Assistant at Princeton (1940-1941), Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University (1945-1950), Visiting Professor and thereafter appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (1950-1959).” According to nobelprize.org , Feynman obtained his B.Sc.

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Critical Thinking Teaching Research Education 320

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2012

As a leader this is the type of teaching and learning culture that I want to foster and cultivate, one where creativity flourishes, students find relevancy and meaning in their learning, and teachers are given the support to be innovative. A teaching and learning culture powered by intrinsic motivation will achieve this.

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Education Artifacts Cultures Leadership 304

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I wanted to know what the research evidence says about the model that New York is discarding and how education researchers would remake gifted and talented programs. Fordham Institute, an education think tank, which published the Ohio study. Among whites, 8 percent get tapped for gifted classrooms.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2025

Research shows students are more engaged when they connect the learning to their strengths, abilities, preferences and interests. Direct instruction plays an important role in explicitly teaching skills students need to successfully explore learning on their own.

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EdTech Critical Thinking Teaching Research 101

ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Cognitive engagement: Encouraged students to think deeply about the content. As it turns out, yes. This teacher makes lessons interesting.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Middle School Research 126

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. To the researchers, that was good news. But the researchers emphatically said “no.”. More schools signed up than the program could handle.

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Teaching Museum Elementary School Critical Thinking 145

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

That’s why I’m convinced that we as a nation have to prioritize civics education in schools to encourage civic engagement, empathy and critical thinking to sustain our constitutional democracy. The Pew Research Center has been tracking public trust in government since 1958 and the decline in trust is very real.

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Civics Civic Engagement Museum Government 97

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What stands out for me is how readers remain interested in basic research into how kids learn, from reading to critical thinking to collaborating with peers. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research. A study on teaching critical thinking in science.

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Research Tutoring Education Critical Thinking 115

ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. In the past, Galinsky says, researchers and educators have focused too much on portraying the emotional turmoil and risky decision-making that is typical in adolescence as negative. “The

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Teaching Humanities Critical Thinking Middle School 141

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2013

In collaboration with my staff and the support of District leadership, my efforts have laid the foundation for an innovative teaching and learning culture that focuses on preparing all students for success. To this end, teachers and students are now routinely utilizing social media and other various Web 2.0

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Leadership Professional Development Critical Thinking Educational Technology 291

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

When we abruptly transitioned online in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, I thought the classes I teach at my flagship research university would resume in person in a matter of weeks — and for sure by the fall semester. I was naïve. My living room and personal MacBook Pro were no longer adequate. There are over 1.5

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Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Economics 141

Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If we continue teaching the same way we did before AI, we risk making our classrooms irrelevant. Instead of resisting, we need to rethink lesson design, focus on critical thinking, and embrace strategies that make learning more interactive, meaningful, and student-driven.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Humanities Research 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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Research Critical Thinking Educational Technology Economics 112

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Image credit: [link] A Biology Teacher’s Thoughts on Critical Literacy by Lynne Torpie Science teachers can tend to be myopic, focusing on acquiring content detail and teaching the steps of the scientific method instead of fostering the investigative, critical thinking and written communication skills that embody real-world scientific endeavors.

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Museum Archiving Social Studies History 315

ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Hardwired to Like Likes One of the reasons young people have a tough time unplugging from social media is that their brains are driven by dopamine, says researcher Laura Marciano. Marciano is a research associate at the Harvard T.H. To do that would be cutting students off from half of their social life.

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K-12 Middle School Critical Thinking High School 121

Dr. Shannon Doak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The fundamental approach to teaching remained static, with technology serving as a veneer rather than a catalyst for change. While these tools may offer efficiency, they often fail to promote critical thinking, creativity, or problem-solving skills—competencies essential for the modern world. in effect size.

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Education Project-Based Learning Tradition Critical Thinking 80

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

The definition below pretty much sums it up: Rigor : A concept either describing an assignment that challenges students to use critical thinking skills or a learning environment that is challenging but supportive and engaging.

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Critical Thinking Cultures Teaching Research 245

TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, recent research highlights the crucial role of social studies instruction in developing strong reading skills. Yet, studies show that integrating social studies into the curriculum can significantly enhance reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and critical thinking.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Civics Critical Thinking 52

TCI

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

By integrating classroom discussion strategies that promote movement, speaking, and listening, educators can foster critical thinking and deeper engagement with the material. Facilitating productive discussions in the classroom is essential for developing critical thinking and fostering a collaborative learning environment.

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Critical Thinking Social Studies Teaching Professional Development 52

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

They do this by mapping courses and activities to institutional competencies: critical thinking, analytical thinking, communication, social awareness and responsibility, creativity and innovation, and leadership and collaboration. “We

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