Welcome to my Classroom: MTV
As an educator, it is important to think about the differences between schooling and education. Schooling is simply the action of students going to school […]
Making Thinking Visible
Get in Their Heads
Often as educators, we rely on students getting the right answer to know if they understand the content. This isn’t enough. If we really want to make sure we are building strong learners we need to get inside their heads, and we need to open up ours to show them how it’s done. We need to make thinking visible.
MTV: Not just for music anymore
Today we are going to tackle three strategies from the book Making Thinking Visible. The first strategy we are going to look at is one […]
Stop running with scalpels!
And you thought kids running with scissors was bad… Surgeons use these tools to cut people open and we expect high school students to be […]
An Interesting Perspective: The Importance of Windows
Howdy bloggers, I apologize for the gap in my posts, but today marks the sixth installment of An Interesting Perspective. In this post, we will […]
Training of the Mind
This quote stuck with me when I first read it because I relate to it in many ways. As a fourth year college student and […]
Taking Notes with Invisible Ink
Can you read this? Of course, you can read the text when I type it clearly, but in the above picture if I were to […]
What does thinking look like?
It’s so simple to test students and grade them based on the facts they’ve memorized, but the whole point of education isn’t to memorize facts, […]
Head Spinning
Thinking about thinking can really make your head spin. Thinking about other people’s thinking can be even more daunting. This daunting task is something that […]