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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

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For example, the column on the left can have words and the column on the right can have definitions. The Definition of Factual Questions: Questions with unambiguous, more or less universally accepted objective answers based on knowledge. A variation of the Matching Question has one column holding more items than the other.

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What Is Learned Helplessness?

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Definition Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a person, after repeated failures or negative experiences, believes they have no control over situations’ outcomes and stops trying to improve or change them. What we know—and this is what we’ve been learning—is that girls have a cultural pressure to be quiet.

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A New Definition For Equity In Education

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Equity In Education: A Definition by Terry Heick In a profession increasingly full of angst and positioning and corrective policy, there are few ideas as easy to get behind as equity. The Cultural Effect As a species, we express ourselves through differences. In culture, there is both identity and anonymity. Equilibrium.

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What It Means To Be A Reflective Teacher

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As a kind of definition, to reflect means to look back at how something ‘went,’ and see it for all of its available parts and patterns: Causes and effects; comparisons and contrast; strengths and weakness; its characteristics; how close it came to what you were expecting; your emotions. It is whole.

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Bones of Contention: New Evidence of Cannibalism in Magdalenian Culture

Anthropology.net

“Cannibalism was an integral practice within the cultural systems of these Magdalenian groups,” the authors write. The problem was that, until recently, no definitive conclusion could be drawn about the purpose behind the human bone modifications. But was it driven by ritual, survival, or violence? Saladié, P.,

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Core Elements of Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

I shared the following definition in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms : Personalization constitutes pedagogical approaches that ensure all learners get what they need when and where they need it to succeed. Personalization is far from a fad or buzzword as it represents an equitable approach to learning.

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3 Strategies for Impactful Communication

A Principal's Reflections

Connect to Learning and School Culture Whether it is getting information out, providing feedback, or educating your stakeholders, there needs to be a compelling why, clear how, and definitive what that leads to the message resonating with your audience. You can rarely go wrong with stories that pull at different emotions.