In the last six months, I have been to two escape rooms. I really didn’t think I would enjoy them as much as I do. If you’ve never been, the premise is simple: you and your team enter a room full of clues that help you unlock a treasure or reward of some sort during … Continue reading High Yield Strategy: Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
If you conduct a Google search regarding “hypothesis generation,” in less than a second you will have access to 154,000,000 links to articles and examples of such activity. That may make you think that the generation and testing of hypotheses is far too great a task to undertake in your classroom. Rest assured, it isn’t. … Continue reading High Yield Strategy: Generating and Testing Hypotheses
Students can sit in a classroom that offers a clear focus, receive masterfully delivered direct instruction, and still not achieve. Why? Students need to actively engage with content in order to fully understand and apply it to a variety of situations. Only then can it be said that they truly learned something. How can teachers … Continue reading Helping Students Actively Engage With Content
Students need opportunities and encouragement to look outside of themselves and consider how others may understand and feel about the world. Classrooms can offer such opportunities and encouragement. In the book Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making, authors Jay McTighe and Harvey Silver share the following five strategies for for … Continue reading Perspective, Empathy, and Depth
When first introducing SPIDER WEB discussions into your classroom, it is best to choose a topic that will get students talking. In her book The Best Class You Never Taught: How SPIDER WEB Discussion Can Turn Students Into Learning Leaders, Alexis Wiggins suggests beginning with a stand-alone discussion (discussion can be weaved into units after … Continue reading Choosing a Topic for SPIDER WEB Discussion
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