A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

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? Where the rigid structures of traditional education give way to flexible, student-centered learning environments.

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Tradition Critical Thinking Cultures Leadership 411

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

15 Alternatives To Report Cards In The K-12 Classroom by TeachThought Staff Like lunchboxes (or brown paper sacks), field trips, and textbooks, report cards are iconic–symbols of traditional classrooms and traditional approaches to education. May require significant changes in teaching practices and assessment methods.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Traditional classroom-based education often constrains students with fixed schedules and locations. Not all students thrive in a traditional classroom setting. This personalized approach fosters a deeper understanding of the concepts and promotes critical thinking.

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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 466

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? The Purpose of Questions Thought of roughly as a kind of spectrum, four purposes of questions might stand out, from more “traditional” to more “progressive.”

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

Education is currently at a crossroads as traditional methods and tools are changing as a result of advances in technology and learning theory. These skill sets include critical thinking/problem solving, media literacy, collaboration, creativity, technological proficiency, and global awareness.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 6, 2014

This technique typically makes students uncomfortable at first as they have become so conditioned by our traditional culture of education where they would rather be spoon-fed information instead of having to think. Not only do students fight this technique at first, but so do parents.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem. In my fifth year of teaching Arabic as a second language, I often reflect on how frequently my subject is undervalued.

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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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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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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

E nergy: " To teach is to touch a life forever" - Anonymous As educators we must exhibit a passion for what we do because each day we have the opportunity to positively impact the life of a child. I even discussed the push to move away from traditional seating arrangements in order to promote collaboration.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In that earlier post, I highlighted the superficial adoption of technology in education, where tools were used to digitize traditional methods without fostering genuine innovation. The fundamental approach to teaching remained static, with technology serving as a veneer rather than a catalyst for change. in effect size.

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Education Project-Based Learning Tradition Critical Thinking 80

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

MARCH 5, 2025

When Rickeyda Carter started teaching young children, she led story time the way she remembers being taught as a child. Older children, experts say, need thoughtful questioning and responses that help develop critical thinking skills and vocabulary. The trend crosses traditional political divides. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Classroom Management Research 106

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teaching has always been a demanding profession, but this school year takes the cake! I’d argue that the answer is , in part, giving them the permission and tools to rethink traditional workflows. When teachers do the bulk of the thinking and work, they rob students of opportunities to develop these critical life skills.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Her response stunned me, not just because she had yelled, but because of who she wasa student who had been a leader in my classroom, someone with whom I had built a strong relationship through teaching art the previous year. Then, I walked back inside and continued teaching. For weeks, I couldnt stop thinking about her reaction.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

These traditional approaches to review are problematic on three fronts. The person generating the study guide and review game is the one doing the critical thinking. That is why I like having students design review and practice choice boards for each other as an alternative to the traditional study guide.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2017

Since this was a violation of school policy I immediately confiscated the device, as this is what I thought I was supposed to do to ensure a school culture free from distraction and solely focused on traditional learning. The hard, but needed, work is taking a critical lens to our work before and after embracing a mindset shift.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Research shows that active learning increases student performance, reduces failure rates, and fosters deeper critical thinking. In the 1980s and 1990s, research confirmed the effectiveness of active learning , leading to its integration into modern teaching methodologies across K-12 and higher education. What Is Active Learning?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 15, 2017

I often feel these traditional pastimes are less attractive than the pull of the screen. When I asked her what inspired the project, she said she learned how to use Google Slides in technology class and wanted to “teach people about pangolins.” My child wanted to teach other people by creating a dynamic presentation.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Yet, studies show that integrating social studies into the curriculum can significantly enhance reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and critical thinking. Incorporate Inquiry-Based Learning: Engage students in discussions, debates, and primary source analysis to deepen comprehension and critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The tutor, which Kestin calls “PS2 Pal,” after the Physical Sciences 2 class he teaches, was told to only give away one step at a time and not to divulge the full solution in a single message. PS2 Pal was also instructed to encourage students to think and give it a try themselves before revealing the answer.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. math teaching predominantly focused on procedural skills, where students spent most of their time acquiring isolated skills through repetition.

Education 126

Education Pedagogy Critical Thinking Middle School 126

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Creative thinking leads the list, followed by analytical or critical thinking. It’s all about giving teachers the tools to teach effectively and students the means to show off their skills to colleges and employers. Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. In Powerful Teaching , the authors focus on the potential of: Retrieval practice – “pulling information out of students’ heads (e.g., lectures)” (p.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Data science courses teach the use of statistical concepts and computer programming to investigate contemporary problems using real-world data sets. They say the more relevant content offers a highly engaging entry point to STEM, especially for students who have been turned off by traditional math courses.

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Education Tradition High School Critical Thinking 141

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students. It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. I had the blessing of teaching her daughter and collaborating with her.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2024

We teach concepts in algebra and calculus that will establish a solid base of knowledge should a student decide to pursue higher levels of mathematics in college or graduate school. There is no better way to teach students to think than to encourage them to wrestle with the sort of complex ideas that we find in time-tested literature.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In addition, it cultivates critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills – all of which are essential for lifelong learning and success beyond school. Why should the responsibility of checking accuracy and thinking about student progress fall solely on the teacher?

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Tradition Critical Thinking Research Education 170

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What aspects of a teacher’s work lead them to engage in problem-solving, critical thinking, and reflection? I tackle traditional grading practices and ways to reimagine our approach in my book Balance with Blended Learning for anyone who wants to explore that further.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

Building in more creativity comes down to student agency—teaching students to find their voice. Creativity encourages problem-solving, critical thinking, iteration, collaboration and making deep connections in students’ learning material. However, creativity shouldn’t be reserved for just those content areas.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. There wasn't suddenly a massive decline in critical thinking,” Caulfield says. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says. The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math. Barclay says. But that wasn’t immediately clear. isn’t working.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2020

This model, however, embeds teaching and learning of new content in the projects themselves. Projects have always been common in classrooms and students frequently wrap up units with bigger assignments that tie together what they learned. They are the means, not the end.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When Iowa Poll respondents opposed to Common Core standards were asked about their objections, some lamented the shift from traditional teaching methods such as rote memorization of facts and formulas to a focus on more critical thinking. Because we’ve learned nothing about teaching math in 50 years. Related Posts.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. McWilliams, of ETS, says she’s had a “mindset shift” in the past year about how she thinks about AI in testing.

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