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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
In his book To Sell Is Human, author Daniel Pink shares a lesson he learned in law school. His professor instructed students to “find the 1%.” What he meant was that students would benefit from wading through all the details and arguments to find the true legal issue – the real heart of the matter
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