In Thinking Through Quality Questioning (Corwin Press, 2011), the authors Jackie Acree Walsh and Beth Dankert Sattes argue that quality questioning by instructors is essential for creating an ...

Imagine yourself in a kindergarten classroom. Amidst bright walls and happy chatter, students are bustling about, moving from station to station to explore different concepts related to shadows and ...

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...

As educators, we often hear about the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to our students. What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and ...

“My mother made me a scientist,” recalled physicist Isidor Rabi, Nobel Prize laureate. “‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you ask a good question today?’” Another Nobel laureate, Elie Wiesel, has likewise ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is critical thinking and how can we integrate it into the classroom? This three-part series will explore what critical thinking is, if it can be specifically ...

The SchoolWide Lab middle school curriculum units are anchored in phenomena, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS), and purposefully integrate Computational Thinking (CT). To date, ...

Students can (and should) still show their work in the age of AI--but it might look a little different in today's classroom.

As GenAI changes how students study and complete assessments, higher education educators must focus on metacognition, clarity ...