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    Throwing the baby out with the bath water

    What are We Doing to Ourselves?

    October 24, 2014

    This is first in a series of blogs about how our baby-bathwater/forest-trees mentalities are making us crazy.

     

    One of the ways students will be asked to demonstrate mastery of common core standards is to “think critically (and creatively) to solve problems.  This has caused me to look...

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    Modeling Thinking

    October 14, 2014

    Q: How do I get my students to be meta-cognitive? It is difficult for my students to explain their thinking.

     

     

    A: Nearly all of us have a difficult time describing how we perform natural activities. For example, describe how you swallow.  Tell me how you walk. Tell me how you think. Y...

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