10 Team-Building Games That Promote Collaborative Critical Thinking
One of education’s primary goals is to groom the next generation of little humans to succeed in the “real world.” Yes, there are mounds of curricula they must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test. Other skills must be honed, too, not the least of which is how to get along with their peers and work well with others. This is not something that can be cultivated through rote memorization or with strategically placed posters. Students must be engaged and cooperation must be practiced, and often. 10 Team-Building Games That Promote Collaborative Critical Thinking 1. This team-building game is flexible. You can recycle this activity throughout the year by adapting the challenge or materials to specific content areas. Skills: Communication; problem-solving 2. This activity can get messy and may be suitable for older children who can follow safety guidelines when working with raw eggs. Skills: Problem-solving, creative collaboration 3.
How to Creatively Integrate Science and Math
Why is the sky blue? I remember in my physical science class, our teacher showed us a possible reason why the sky is blue. He took a canister of liquid oxygen and poured it out on the table. I saw the blueness of the liquid as it flowed out and then disappeared. In science, geometric principles such as symmetry, reflection, shape, and structure reach down to the atomic levels. In math class one of the biggest needs is relevance. Being able to teach math better and being able to teach science better are powerful reasons for the math and science teacher collaborate with each other. Unfortunately, knowing that increased teacher collaboration in math and science will benefit students and teachers is not enough. What are ways you work with your companion subject teacher (math or science) to help students understand math and science better?
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Hace ya dos años que la Conferencia Iberoamericana de Educación aprobó el proyecto «Metas Educativas 2021: la educación que queremos para la generación de los Bicentenarios», que sería posteriormente refrendado por la Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno celebrada a comienzos de diciembre de 2010 en Mar del Plata (Argentina). Se ha reiterado muchas veces que se trata de un proyecto ambicioso, que aspira a mejorar la calidad y la equidad en la educación para hacer frente a la pobreza y a la desigualdad y así contribuir a lograr la inclusión social. Como se ha insistido en diversas ocasiones, su propósito consiste en superar los desafíos educativos que Iberoamérica tiene aún pendientes del siglo XX al tiempo que se afrontan los nuevos retos que plantea el siglo XXI. Más información [+] Este informe inicia el compromiso asumido de acompañar y comunicar el desarrollo del proyecto Metas Educativas 2021. Asunción, 25 de septiembre de 2011 {*style:<b>Colección Metas Educativas 2021 o
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Keep Students Motivated with This Goal-Setting Activity - Ferndale, MI
When I was a student, often the last week of school was spent watching videos and goofing around. My peers and I loved every minute of it, but looking back, it’s easy to see that this was not a productive use of our time. To keep students motivated and self-reflective, I like to have them complete goal-setting worksheets throughout the year—but you can certainly implement them at any point in the semester, even if you only have a few weeks left of school. This activity comes from Larry Ferlazzo, but over the years, I’ve made a few tweaks to the original lesson. Here’s what I do: Start by having students read an excerpt from Michael Jordan’s book, I Can’t Accept Not Trying. Next, students get together with another pair of students to compare their summaries and work together to develop the best one-sentence thesis/summary they possibly can. Following this, each student completes this goal-setting worksheet.
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World’s Best B-School Professors: Sheena Iyengar
Columbia’s Sheena Iyengar is one of the world’s best business school professors Age: 41 Claim to Fame: Expert, the art of choosing Discipline: Management Education: Stanford University, PhD, Psychology University of Pennsylvania, BS, Economics University of Pennsylvania, BA, Psychology At Columbia Since: 1998 Before Columbia: Sloan School of Management at MIT Fun Fact: I like my coffee with four sugars If I wasn’t teaching, my dream job would be: No idea, this is my dream job Best part of the job: Getting to talk about and create new ideas Worst part of the job: Not enough hours in the day for everything With her research that explores the factors of good and bad decision making, Sheena Iyengar is considered one of the leading experts on choice. Iyengar dissects the beauty and ugly truths about decision making. Although these accomplishments are impressive, what’s more inspiring is how this 41-year-old professor was drawn to the art of choosing in the first place. Students Say:
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30 Incredible Nature Documentaries for Kids
My kids love animals and enjoy watching nature documentaries– especially when they feature animals! I started making a list of favorites, and gathering suggested titles of nature documentaries from my friends. Although these titles have all been recommended for kids, remember that with nature documentaries, it’s real life: children (or their parents) may be disturbed by some images of predators hunting, catching, and eating their prey, the occasional mating scene, or birth scene. Here are 29 nature documentaries for kids that are educational and inspiring, and will teach you about life on Earth with phenomenal cinematography and fascinating . This post contains affiliate links. 1. Planet Earth is our #1, absolute favorite of the nature documentaries perhaps because it came out in 2007 when my daughter was 2 and I was pregnant. 2. This is a Disneynature documentary that is narrated by Samuel L Jackson. 3. 4. 5. Another of the Disneynature documentaries, this time all about brown bears!
The 10 Most Viewed <i>EdWeek</i> Commentaries of 2011
Published Online: December 30, 2011 By The Editors In 2011, Education Week published in print and online well over 100 thoughtful Commentaries on education issues. To give a sense of which opinion essays our readers found most compelling, the editors at Education Week have compiled a list of our 10 most-viewed Commentaries. Below, they are ordered by the number of online page views they generated. Revisit these Commentaries and examine perspectives you may have missed in 2011. 2. Formative assessment can work wonders when teachers realize it's a process of using assessment results to adjust how they work with their students, W. 5. Angela Beeley responds to those who would strip teachers of their collective-bargaining rights and calls attacks on teachers and unions cynical and calculated. 7. Prescriptive curricula make it harder for students to learn to write well, Paula Stacey writes. 8. 9. 10. Vol. 30, Issue 15 Back to Top
