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5 strategies to close the critical thinking gap

eSchool News

Key points: Critical thinking should not be separate from and on top of what teachers are doing in the classroom How to help students build critical success skills 3 lessons on perseverance from Stoffel the honey badger For more news on durable skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Achievement discrepancies among U.S.

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5 ways educators can shrink the critical thinking gap

eSchool News

On the 2nd Day of Edtech, our story focuses on critical thinking. students remain persistent and troubling–despite decades of targeted interventions and whole-school improvement programs. students remain persistent and troubling–despite decades of targeted interventions and whole-school improvement programs.

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Shift to Leveraging Formative Assessment for Metacognition

Catlin Tucker

How can formative assessment data help students to develop their metacognitive skills? These informal assessments provide information to the teacher about students’ understanding of the material being covered and the skills being introduced. It helps to identify a student’s strengths and limitations.

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Shifting from Time-consuming Teacher-led Workflows to Sustainable Student-led Workflows

Catlin Tucker

Teachers are navigating substitute teacher shortages, COVID protocols, and record numbers of absent students in addition to the normal demands of this job. Yet, the last two years have highlighted how crucial school is for students and families. I teamed up with Dr. Katie Novak to write a follow-up to our book UDL and Blended Learning.

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How to use alternative assessments in the classroom

eSchool News

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Some have limited application and require lower levels of critical thinking; others are foundational to future learning and broadly applicable. Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day!

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2024: The year of generative AI

eSchool News

Personalized learning materials : Gen AI makes it easy to tailor educational content to individual student needs; it can adapt materials based on difficulty levels, interests, and learning styles. Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays.

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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Part IV: Thinking About Thinking This is part four of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “I used to think…Now, I think…” routine.

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