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Critical Thinking Toolbox: How to Brainstorm | Edutopia
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Brainstorming is an essential part of critical thinking and a tool that people use to invent an idea, find a solution to a problem, or answer a question.
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Considering a lot of bad ideas before we get to a good one is how brainstorming works. We start by opening our minds and assuming that a lot of failures will be part of the process.
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6 Elements of the Perfect Brainstorm
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
The Greatest Work …
“Lives and futures depend on you.”
Recently found … 05/05/2014
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4 Free Web Tools for Student Portfolios
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the effect of good portfolios. They craft a narrative of learning, growth and achievement over time.
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as our focus in the classroom continues to move toward performance-based assessment, the following four web tools will help you and your students to compose narratives
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Recently found … 05/01/2014
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Let It Marinate: The Importance of Reflection and Closing | Edutopia
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The end of a class period may often feel like a time to slow down and regroup before another set of students arrives. An alternate view is that these last moments, which usually occur when ideas have had a chance to marinate, can be a time when quiet thinkers finally articulate their ideas and move toward Freire’s idea of concientizacion. In these moments, students can deepen their own learning, and entire groups can share ideas and make meaning of content. Additionally, the time when a large piece of work is submitted is an important opportunity for students to articulate their own learning and self-evaluate in order to improve learning and the quality of their work for the future.
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A Third Way poll found that the perception of the teaching profession is particularly dismal among high-achieving undergraduate students: not only do Millennials believe that the profession has become less prestigious over the last few years, these students also view teaching to be out of line with the tenets they most value in a career.
This report proposes 5 big policy shifts at the national level to modernize the teaching profession, from creating a national standard for teaching practice and refusing to subsidize teacher prep programs whose graduates don’t make the grade, to providing immediate student loan relief to teachers, paying and promoting them like professionals, and transitioning them to a modern, portable retirement system.
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