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I’m pretty sure that creativity as an overarching theme in the classroom is probably not at the fore of your thinking at this point in the year. You surely have more important things to address at this point, such as instructional delivery (are we face-to-face, can we go longer than a day-and-a-half without getting shut…
Congratulations! You survived a highly unusual school year!! As the summer break lies ahead, I hope you consider undertaking the following: Rejoice: Find a way to celebrate all that you have accomplished. You have managed to reinvent an entire instructional delivery model and deliver quality lessons to students in a distance-delivery format for nine weeks. …
Students need opportunities and encouragement to look outside of themselves and consider how others may understand and feel about the world. Classrooms can offer such opportunities and encouragement. In the book Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making, authors Jay McTighe and Harvey Silver share the following five strategies for for…
Think about a meaningful moment or event in your life from five, ten, fifteen, or twenty years ago. Odds are that you immediately had an image in your mind. From that image, you could easily retell about your memorable event. That is the power of visual encoding. How could you harness this same power in…
Several years ago when I taught music theory, I liked to notate a standard chord progression on the board, but leave the resolution blank. I would then ask students what they thought would happen next. Most would respond with the traditional and appropriate resolution. I would then ask students what would happen if we resolved…
If you haven’t asked students to dig deep into content through reading in quite some time, now might be a great time to do so. In the book Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making authors Jay McTighe and Harvey Silver share the following tools for helping students read for understanding…
Comparing is a tremendous method for gaining deeper understanding. Comparison activities fit well into traditional and non-traditional instructional designs. In the book Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making, authors Jay McTighe and Harvey Silver share the following tools to help students make meaningful comparisons in their content: Describe first, then…
Many people are finding it difficult to maintain a positive perspective with the daily barrage of news and information about the current pandemic situation and the subsequent mandated closures and changes in daily routines. In the midst of it all, I believe that you and I can be a conduit of good for those around…
Students need tools to improve their ability to gather information in meaningful ways. In the book Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making authors Jay McTighe and Harvey Silver share the following tools of note taking and summarizing that can take place in classroom: Window Notes – Using a sheet of…
Students need to see the big picture in order to move into deep learning. In the book Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making authors Jay McTighe and Harvey Silver provide the following tools for helping students conceptualize ideas in the classroom in order to learn at greater depths: Concept attainment…
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