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ASCD Conference on Teaching and Learning
Learn how to close the achievement gap and help struggling students succeed at ASCD's upcoming Fall Conference, October 29–31, 2010, in Chicago, Ill. Leading experts in these areas will share their insights on how to turn underperforming students around.
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Too Early for Engineering?
A high-performing school district has added engineering requirements for its students. Proponents say this will help with creative-thinking skills, but critics argue that students might not be absorbing the curriculum.
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Blog Watch: High School Soup
A new blog from the Alliance for Excellent Education covers a variety of education policy and news stories. One recent post compares the BP oil spill to high school dropout rates.
Classroom Management 101
Managing a class of 24 or 30 personalities requires a masterful ability to supervise group dynamics; focus on individuals; execute sound judgment; and, perhaps most of all, inspire, engage, and motivate children or young adults to learn with a forward-looking vision. This issue will share best practices and innovations for organizing materials, promoting collaboration for learning, teaching negotiating skills, and fostering a positive classroom culture.
Fostering Thinking Skills for Today's Students
In today's education system, getting students to learn how to think, analyze, and understand what they are learning is crucial to their mental development. If a student does not understand the curriculum and does not know how to think about it meaningfully, then the student is not truly learning. Educators need to know how to teach these skills and how to identify when a student is using them.
This issue of ASCD Express highlights a new Strategic Teacher PLC Guide, Compare and Contrast: Teaching Comparative Thinking to Strengthen Student Learning, as an example of how to teach thinking skills. This guide explores the basics of strengthening thinking skills and shows educators how to draw up and implement lesson plans and identify specific points to include in their curricula.
Other educators have contributed to this issue by offering their ideas on what works and what doesn't. Find out how you can improve your learning environment by ensuring students' minds are being molded in the best possible manner.
Compare and Contrast: Teaching Comparative Thinking to Strengthen Student Learning
Harvey F. Silver's guide for educators shows how they can plan to strengthen students' thinking while teaching their lesson plans.
A Simple Solution to a Complex Problem
Former high school teacher Greg Wheeler writes that a new approach to teaching thinking skills, the DSRP method, can enhance students' thinking and content understanding.
The Thought-Filled Curriculum
In this Educational Leadership article, Art Costa proposes five themes educators should consider when developing curriculum to help students foster critical-thinking skills.
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Learning to Think … Thinking to Learn: The Pathway to Achievement
A physics teacher shows how he combines strategies to guide students through lessons while also helping them use their own intellect to understand the subject matter.
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My Back Pages: Higher-Order Thinking Skills (1985, 1986)
Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues spent years studying people to come up with the foundation for "mastery learning." Read about their research, and decide if it still applies in today's classroom.
Rethinking Five Paragraphs
A high school teacher encourages her students to break the five-paragraph essay mold and think independently and creatively about how they craft their writing.
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