by Jim Knight | Jul 12, 2013 | Self-Coaching, Teaching Strategies |
This is a column I wrote for a different blog a few years back. I recently received an email asking a great question: “Where can I find good Thinking Prompts for my math class?” Thinking Prompts, in case you don’t know, are provocative objects we...
by Jim Knight | Nov 15, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Student Learning, Teaching Strategies |
“Only dialogue … is … capable of generating critical thinking.” Paulo Freire Of course we want out students to think. Freire’s comment, though, is a powerful caution because he suggests that our students won’t think unless we, ourselves, approach them with openness...
by Jim Knight | Sep 13, 2010 | Teaching Strategies |
John Steinbeck writes in East of Eden: This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight...