Teacher Clarity: Understanding How Learners Learn
Teacher Clarity: Understanding How Learners Learn
Thinking about my thinking refers to methods used to help students understand the way they learn. It incorporates the ability to alter thoughts and behaviors.
From Implicit to Explicit: Schema and Success Criteria Teachers often know exactly what they want students to learn. The problem is that students don’t always see the map. They may hear the task, start the work, and still miss what…
Ms. Rivera collects lab notebooks and sees the same pattern again. The conclusion sections look “finished,” but the reasoning is thin. When she writes feedback, students skim it, then move on. The next lab looks the same. So she tries…
Thinking Tools Promote Higher Literacy Thinking tools are cognitive strategies, including planning and goal-setting, tapping prior knowledge, making connections, forming interpretations, reflecting, and evaluating that experienced readers and writers used to construct meaning from and with texts according to Carol…