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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Sidenote: Questioning And The Socrative Method The Socrative Method is among the most well-known version of the Didactic approach, where students are (or can be, depending on how the seminar is structured) guided by ‘more knowledge others’ (MKO) personalized and extended reflection through inquiry. What is a ‘good question’?

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PROOF POINTS: Does growth mindset matter? The debate heats up

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Two meta-analyses on growth mindset were published online in the fall of 2022 in the journal Psychological Bulletin and arrived at opposite conclusions about one of the most popular ideas in education. How could two such studies come out within just three weeks of each other in Psychological Bulletin and arrive at opposite conclusions?

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Why the preteen years are a critical period for brain development

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. Leave this field empty if you're human: Dahl describes himself as a developmental scientist, practicing in a field that combines many subjects such as neuroscience, psychology and medicine. Culture is shaping it.”. Early Childhood.

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Why Educator Wellness Matters

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Kanold, an award-winning educator, author and national thought leader in mathematics and professional learning communities (PLCs), has co-authored numerous best-selling books and conducted professional development seminars worldwide. And they can teach wellness by first modeling their own wellness goals.

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OPINION: Time to stop weeding out first- and second-year STEM students and ending careers before they begin

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Faculty should want to change the culture of their required courses; they should want to work in the best departments with bleeding-edge science — and undergraduate students are vital to this goal. Making this change will maintain a culture of excellence while giving all students an alternate pathway to success.

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The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. Moorpark has added “equity lounges,” summer trips to Africa, and seminars for professors on how to best teach men. He’s supposed to be strong and not show weakness,” Sanders says. “If Just 7 percent of U.S.

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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When she walked into his first-year seminar at Dickinson College, Steve Riccio was impressed by his new student’s enthusiasm. For many faculty, this new role requires a culture shift. And that overcame all institutional cultures.”. Faculty are required to flag any problems by specified dates during each semester. CARLISLE, Penn.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room. Mississippi Learning.

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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. It was 7:58 a.m.,

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

psychology class. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. Strangers introduced themselves when she sat in the courtyard.

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Anthropology-Psychology interface

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective.

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. But what is it, exactly? Expense is not the only hurdle.

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Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

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We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Supalla also treated her staff to lunches and hosted seminars on mental health and financial planning to address their personal concerns. “If It’s 100 percent, I think, against what our culture tends to think for kids,” Turner said. “It We need psychological support, we need help with our kids. Everybody is traumatized.”.

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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

PROOF POINTS: Does growth mindset matter? The debate heats up

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Why the preteen years are a critical period for brain development

Why Educator Wellness Matters

OPINION: Time to stop weeding out first- and second-year STEM students and ending careers before they begin

The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men

At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

Anthropology-Psychology interface

Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

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