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The Curse of Knowledge: once you know something, it's hard to think from the perspective of someone who doesn't know it. And the more you know, the harder it gets.
The more I started looking, the more I realized that most of my questions asked students to remember, not actually think.
Asking questions is such a basic tool of teaching, yet how many of us have ever been taught to ask good questions? In this opening to a series about questioning, we'll explore how to get students asking each other questions.
Teachers who are most successful at differentiation plan for thinking, not merely for content.
I knew how to help my below-level writers become on-level. But how the heck do you make the next step?
Beware one-off questions. Any question that we prepare should have a natural follow-up question. And those follow-ups should push students up Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Here’s why I never approach a lesson as being “for a grade.” Instead, I think of a lesson as I’d think of baseball, chess, or the piano.
When you’re teaching a reading skill, can you replace some of those dull sample texts with glorious artwork?