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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

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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Addressing 5 Common Project-Based Learning Challenges

TeachThought

Address Common Project-Based Learning Challenges Through Culture-Building contributed by Sara Segar , Experit Learning Depot I would never claim to be the world’s best project-based educator. I’ve learned that every PBL struggle is preventable with a solid PBL culture. What is a PBL culture?

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Communicating a Concept With Instagram

A Principal's Reflections

The culture at New Milford High School empowers teachers to develop creative pathways for students to demonstrate conceptual mastery. You will choose a theme/concept statement from the statements we generate or address in our Socratic Seminar at the end of the play. Well earlier this week Mrs. Westbrook was at it again.

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

ED Surge

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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Seminar Series on SNCC and Grassroots Organizing

Zinn Education Project

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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The Importance of Building Connections

A Principal's Reflections

The morning began with Collen providing an overview of our school''s comprehensive Holocaust education program; highlighting the course curriculum, the study seminar to the U.S. Jenny Eisenberg, from the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs arranged for the teachers to visit our school.

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How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

The Hechinger Report

Other such practices include first-year seminars, writing-intensive courses, service learning, internships and study abroad. Jimenez Delgado, an undocumented student who was born in Mexico but grew up in the Los Angeles area, said that “coming to college, I felt like it was going to be a lot of culture clashing — and it wasn’t.”

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