Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

STEM isnt just the latest teaching topic: Its an innovative, cross-curricular way to strengthen problem-solving and critical thinking skills across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These activities make excellent interdisciplinary challenges for cross-curricular science and history lessons.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Psychology “Do Now” Writing Prompts & Slides By Loosli Learning Grades: 9th-12th Subjects: Psychology Ideal for psychology classes or any subject focused on critical thinking, these do now writing prompts are an intriguing way to start the day. Should high school last until age 20, or stop at age 16?

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2025

Teacher preparation is key in this new priority, and the order notes that educators must have “the tools and knowledge to both train students about AI and utilize the technology in the classroom.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

This sparks greater interest in literature, enabling teachers to facilitate meaningful interactions that inspire more compelling classroom discussions that increase critical thinking skills, delivering better learning outcomes. Gale In Context: Literature helps broaden and deepen students’ knowledge and understanding of the material.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

Few would challenge the value of helping students develop critical thinking and information literacy. But if such skills are encouraged simply as a reactionary means to challenge knowledge, says danah boyd, the future may look even more chaotic and grim. To be clear, boyd doesn’t believe that critical thinking is inherently bad.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? This stage of the learning process encourages deeper thinking by moving beyond memorization, requiring students to engage in higher-order cognitive processes such as critical analysis and problem-solving.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Let’s explore how these strategies promote engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding among students, enhancing academic success. Active learning strategies for students in K-12 encompass a range of techniques designed to promote engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It’s hard to wrap our heads around the immense knowledge that future generations will possess. Generation Alpha will likely be the most technically innovative generation in history, but what will they do with that knowledge? How can we harness their skills to create world-changing technologies?

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Understanding context in texts and conversations AI can summarize a passage or analyze a text, but it often misses the deeper meaning, tone, and cultural nuance, especially in literature and history. This is especially concerning in education, where critical thinking and contextual understanding are essential.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

These latest archives from Gale promote open dialogue and teach critical thinking skills that inspire change and cross-cultural awareness. “No We are actively working on several projects that will provide a greater representation of the history of minority groups like these.”.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

It allows students to compile evidence of learning through text, images, videos, and links, fostering creativity and critical thinking. For a history project, I ask students to create a Wakelet collection on the causes of the American Revolution. I love how Padlet facilitates a collaborative environment.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

History curriculum and professional development supporting discussion-based primary source analysis online and in other learning settings. History curriculum.” History curriculum. Boston – VHS Learning has been selected to receive a $25,000 grant to create a high-quality U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

We are no longer keepers and passers of knowledge as we once were. With infinite information at their fingertips, how do we equip this new type of student with the skills to interpret, problem solve, and think critically about the information they encounter when we are not always the ones delivering it to them? and Teo, Y.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

The company is offering a limited number of invitations to educators to engage students in knowledge building and understanding through creative agency and inclusion. Through multimedia projects, students assemble language and general knowledge that helps them to become stronger readers, writers, listeners, and speakers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

In inquiry-based classrooms, teachers guide students through the research process and allow them to share their knowledge on their chosen subject. They’ll be confident in the knowledge they have gained about a topic of their choosing. It opened up engaging dialogues about how far the medical field has come and where it might go.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Critical Thinking Development in Middle School Education Fostеring critical thinking skills in middlе school еducation is paramount to equipping studеnts with thе intеllеctual tools necessary for succеss. Sеvеral kеy componеnts constitutе critical thinking.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Even if a student doesn’t select a career in STEM, the soft skills they will learn at a STEM-focused school (critical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving and more) will serve them well in whatever they choose to do in life. The department also noted that STEM jobs often pay substantially more than jobs in other fields.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

public education system has evolved throughout its history, school libraries have also developed with a consistent central goal: to give students the best opportunity to succeed academically. Moreover, school library faculty must partner with administrators and teachers to ensure students adopt effective critical thinking and research skills.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

Basic knowledge (Level 1) of Bloom’s original (1956) version of the taxonomy can now be generated via AI. For instance, creating a state report showing its capital and basic history would be simple for Claude.ai. As technology has again shifted the landscape, it is time to move evaluation back to the top of the taxonomy.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the “Now I think…,” they articulate their current or updated perspectives on the same topic or issue. Consider how their thoughts have changed, evolved, or expanded as they’ve gained more knowledge or insights. This promotes critical thinking and historical empathy.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By moving through these four phases—See, Think, Me, We—participants engage in a comprehensive thinking process that takes them from initial observation to personal connection and social relevance. Teachers often use this routine to deepen students’ engagement with material and to foster complex, critical thinking skills.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

It is common practice for older adults to partake in book clubs as a mainstay of their social and intellectual well-being, witting around with people at similar stages in life to interpret an author’s words and critically think about important themes.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Learners can more effectively assimilate and interrogate new concepts by connecting new information to prior knowledge, extending ideas beyond initial comprehension, and pinpointing areas of challenge or uncertainty. Extend: Encourage them to speculate on how a different outcome in history might have affected the present.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

Each CoderZ course develops interdisciplinary skills like problem-solving, collaboration, and grit as well as core knowledge in physics, geometry, literacy, and algebra. Grounded in math, physics, and engineering, CoderZ trains students grades four and up in computational thinking and technical ability.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2016

Educators are grappling — either by choice or decree — with how to incorporate digital devices, new learning standards, and more collaboration and critical thinking into the already-packed school day. Reflect from your own life: it’s not just your own knowledge, but how you use that knowledge — your skills.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

But even though Cote agrees that human grading is superior to what a bot can do, the reality is that teachers don’t have time to grade the number of essay assignments he thinks is really necessary to get kids fluent in the knowledge and critical thinking skills they’ll need to be effective citizens in our democracy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Students not only acquire technical skills in coding and robotics but also develop critical thinking and teamwork abilities. By immersing students in real-world applications, this technology tool exemplifies how innovative tools can bridge theoretical knowledge with practical skills, preparing students for the challenges of the future.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

AP Learning Tools uses College Board ® -level questions and clear, concise answer explanations to help students understand why they got an answer wrong, retain information, develop critical thinking skills, and deepen subject-area knowledge.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2021

But because of its radical, unique power to transform our society, public education is extremely prone to political influence and interference, something that I, as a former history teacher, know all too well. This is political. My vision of public education is different.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information. Teachers are not only mastering content knowledge but also shifting mindsets to a more exploratory and inquiry-based approach.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

It’s the teacher’s responsibility to insure students learn over-arching concepts such as how to speak to a group, how to listen effectively, how to think critically, and how to solve problems. The vehicle for teaching these ideas is history, science, and literature, but they aren’t the goal.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

He could also incorporate his knowledge of building codes, accessibility considerations, and CAD modeling. Social justice enterprises serve powerful roles and can connect to history and culture, community engagement and civic duty. For our students who assist with meal preparation, the lessons inside the kitchen are seemingly endless.

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Learning Schools Students History 201

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The activity develops students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills. One day, at the harvest festival, an eighth-grade history teacher questioned the student about some historical facts, and he answered them correctly. After, we had critical conversations together about what he had learned.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

With modern challenges, such as cyber-bullying or the increasing cost of medicine, a classical education, with its focus on philosophy and inquiry, can offer students the opportunity to gain knowledge and develop innovative thought, while examining issues through a moral lens.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

It just means that many of us struggle to operate simultaneously inside and outside of a system that was only built to test content-knowledge in a very standardized way. But the fact that there is little data should not be a proof-point that these models don’t work.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The African diaspora is not taught as a standalone Advanced Placement course, but rather as a theme in AP Seminar through which students learn about real-world issues while developing skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, research and presentation. Cary Hunt, who teaches AP Seminar at Grissom High School in Huntsville, Ala.,

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