"Everywhere I went, I saw students not thinking and, as a result, teachers having to plan their teaching on the assumption that students either can't or won't think" (p. 12).
Liljedahl's style of research is original in both content and presentation - I've never read a teaching book like it before. A thinking classroom, he concludes, involves consideration of fourteen variables: 1. The types of task we use 2. The way we form collaborative groups 3. Where students work 4. How we arrange the furniture 5. How we answer questions 6. When, where, and how tasks are given 7. What homework looks and sounds like 8. How we foster autonomy 9. How we use hints and extensions 10. How we consolidate a lesson 11. How students take notes 12. How we choose to evaluate 13. How we use formative assessment 14. How we grade
The links below are to later posts documenting the effort to build a "Thinking Classroom" this year: If you enjoyed this post, please share it! Want to read more right now? You can browse past posts by category
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Mika
10/29/2023 08:21:09 pm
You commented on my post on FB about thin-slicing so here I am really enjoying your blog! I cannot wait to read all of them. Would you be able to share something like a timeline of class? What is the flow of your class for a period?
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