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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. To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea.

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5 strategies to close the critical thinking gap

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Ask better questions–and teach students to ask their own Increasing the rigor of the questions we are asking is another way to support critical thinking. That means asking questions that go beyond basic knowledge and comprehension to require higher-order thinking skills such as application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

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4 Strategies Designed to Drive Metacognitive Thinking

Catlin Tucker

Click To Tweet Too often students receive information, receive instructions, receive objectives, and receive grades without ever being asked to think about learning and the development of discrete skills. I believe that is a problem. EndWeekExitTicket.

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5 ways educators can shrink the critical thinking gap

eSchool News

Ask better questions–and teach students to ask their own Increasing the rigor of the questions we are asking is another way to support critical thinking. That means asking questions that go beyond basic knowledge and comprehension to require higher-order thinking skills such as application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

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Combatting the Challenges of Whole Group Lessons with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Below is an image of teacher responses to the following questions: What are the benefits and challenges of the whole group, teacher-led model from your perspective? I ask them to brainstorm and discuss with colleagues the benefits and challenges of teaching using the whole group, teacher-led, teacher-paced model.

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What To Do With Wonky Wednesday

Catlin Tucker

Other teachers may want to impose a loose structure on the process with brainstorming, articulating guiding questions, submitting a project pitch, setting goals associated with the project, meeting periodically with the teacher to check-in, and journaling about the process. 2 Flex Your Metacognitive Muscles.

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Advancing with Blended & Online Learning

Catlin Tucker

Teachers taking either course will have access to an online community where they can ask questions, share resources, and get support from other educators as they work through the course! Each lesson includes video instruction and an action item to encourage teachers to apply what they are learning.