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In Sunday’s New York Times, Matt Richtel wrote an article entitled, In Classrooms of the Future, Stagnant Scores. He addressed important issues that educators are struggling with when it comes to assessing the value of technology in the classroom. As he points out, The digital push here aims to go far beyond gadgets to transform…
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These two questions have been debated many times, often with little resolution. Many schools leave it up to individual faculty members, a grade-level team or department to determine its own policy. I wonder why schools tend to relinquish the responsibility for setting a homework policy that is based on guidelines consistent with what research says…
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The Center for Teaching is collaborating with Drew Charter School’s administration to launch a Data Wise Improvement Process at the school. We are trying to figure out how best to integrate the Data Wise plan into the school’s culture. Last year, the Senior Administrative Team worked through ten, one-hour workshops sessions becoming familiar with Data…
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What is critical thinking? How do we intentionally teach critical thinking skills? How do we know that students are mastering critical thinking skills? What will it look like in the classroom and for the graduate when students have mastered the skills? How should we effectively assess the critical thinking skills we say we value? Finally,…
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Yesterday, I attended the Elementary School faculty meeting at The Westminster Schools. Eugenia Wattles, the Elementary School Counselor and teacher of Bible Values, gave a wonderful introduction and prayer to open the meeting. Her message was that relationships matter most to students. One of her statements resonated with me: One of the greatest gifts you…
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