Tag: Critical Thinking

5 Active Learning Strategies to Boost Your Classroom

Active learning strategies are the perfect solution for taking your students from a passive state to an active state that involves higher-order thinking skills. These

Teaching Children to be Skeptical

Each day children are blasted with nonstop messages that are trying to tell them how they should think: on television, there is the stream of commercials; on

Teach your students to use critical thinking with this activity that is guaranteed to use higher order thinking (HOTS). And BONUS: this strategy is perfect for any elementary content area too!

Tic-Tac-Toe: An Activity to Build Critical Thinking

Alright, so it’s not exactly tic-tac-toe. I suppose when you play that game, you alternate with a partner, but nonetheless, it is a fun activity

Thinking Routines for Exploring New Content

Welcome back to the conclusion of Chapter 4 of Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchart. Last week I discussed the first four (of seven) thinking

Thinking Routines | Getting Your Students Thinking

These ideas that I’m presenting are suggested to be used at the beginning of a lesson or unit. The first is called See-Think-Wonder. This routine

We use tools in our classroom that help encourage our students' thinking -- but are you making their thinking visible? We use anchor charts and other strategies, but are you doing all of these? There's one way to find out!

Tools for Making Students’ Thinking Visible

Welcome back to week 2 of my Making Students’ Thinking Visible (By Ron Ritchhart, et. al) Book Study. Last week I read and blogged about

This critical thinking activity is all about getting your students to think deeper and to synthesize in your elementary classrooms! Students will love this engaging activity!

Forced Relationships

Forced relationships. Have you heard of these? Yes, I’m still talking about education concepts. No, I’m not talking about the relationships you are forced to