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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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