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Walk into almost any classroom and you're likely to hear teachers asking students to think. This may take the form of asking learners to compare two perspectives, analyze the evidence at hand, determi...

The Thinking Curriculum: What Do We Mean When We Say Students Should Think?

Walk into almost any school and ask teachers what they want students to be able to do with what they learn. Very few will s...

Ask a group of students what they would like to learn about, create, improve, or accomplish if they could choose almost anything, and they'll usually answer quickly.

They may want to learn to play a ...

Ask students what they want to accomplish someday, and the answers can be surprisingly specific. One student wants to learn how to rebuild an engine. Another wants to write and record a song. Someone ...

What went well today? What was challenging? What are you still confused about? What could you do differently next time?

Every teacher has likely asked some version of these questions in an effort to ...

A student finishes an assessment and tells the teacher, “I thought I knew this.” The teacher asks what happened. The student explains how they studied the material several times, felt confident, and a...

There are few classroom responses more efficient than “I don’t know.” A teacher asks a question. The student looks down, shrugs, and says it. Sometimes it comes quietly. Sometimes it arrives with enou...

Every teacher has students who seem to disappear during the most important parts of a lesson. They look down when a question is asked, anxiously waiting for another student to answer. If called on, th...

Every teacher has had one of those days. The first student asks, "What do I do when I'm finished?" A few minutes later someone else raises a hand. "Can you help me?" Then comes, "Is this enough?" "Wha...

 Most teachers want students to “take ownership” of their learning. It is one of those phrases that sounds right as soon as we say it. We want learners to set goals, use feedback, make good choices, a...

How often does a teacher leave a professional development session with a page of notes and several worthwhile ideas, only to return to a classroom where the immediate demands of the day crowd out ever...

Why are we doing this?

The age-old question that is anything but music to the ears of a teacher. While this inquiry from students may become white noise in the classroom setting, it does unearth a po...