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🀭 Find The Controversy

Every topic has some juicy controversy. Leverage it! Look for ambiguity, disagreements, dilemmas, and discrepancies in any topic.

🚫 Anti-Techniques

These are ideas I used to believe that now I think aren't actually so great. Oops!

πŸ› Fuzzy Problems

Fuzzy problems are ambiguous. They are missing data. They have lots of right answers, but (more importantly) they also have wrong answers.

πŸŽ₯ Embed A Classic

Take out a boring sample and embed great art, music, film, tv shows, and other classics into your lessons.

❓ Ask Better Questions

I received surprisingly little training on how to ask questions, considering how many darn questions I asked!

πŸͺ„ Change, Then Explain!

My favorite way to reach "synthesize" - ask students to make a change and then explain the effects of that change.

πŸ”ƒ Think Big! But Also Small.

Get your students' thinking moving from specific to the abstract and then back again.

πŸ’₯ Get Ridiculous

Avoid boring examples and go for the outliers! Everything's more interesting when you're working with unexpected examples.

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Taking Flashcards Up To “Analyze”

We had a pack of animal flashcards. But my kid can already read. So here’s how we took these low-level cards up to Analyze – in three different ways.

Help my students remember these confusing terms!

If you want students to memorize, you can’t aim for memorize. You have to aim higher – and then memorization comes along for free.

When A Math Puzzle Isn’t Very Puzzling

It looks like a fun puzzle. But it’s actually just a low-level worksheet in disguise!

Don’t just list examples of writing techniques. Let’s improve Shakespeare!

I stopped and started with “What πŸ‘„ special writing techniques does the author use? List examples.”

Over-Scaffolding Writing

Here’s what happens when we make a scaffold the final product.

How *Not* To Ask Questions About A Novel

These “discussion questions” highlight so many of the problems we’ve been looking at.

Taking A Zoologist Across Disciplines

All I did was ask students to list and explain three “disciplines.” Let’s take it a bit further!

My class listed two Unanswered Questions. Now what?

It seems obvious, but if someone tells me what they’re wondering about, I shouldn’t move on to another topic!

Two Questions I Won’t Ask About A Famous Quote

Let’s do more than ask, “What did this person mean?”

What Makes An Antagonist Effective?

It’s really fun to take an already good sequence, tweak it, and get something even better!

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