Using Rubrics to Inform and Support Learning Outcomes
How are students graded in a thinking classroom? Peter Liljedahl works with teachers to create a rubric that provides feedback on specific skills and the learning path in addition to providing a grade for the unit of study. This rubric structure emphasizes learning outcomes rather than just earning points.
Thinking Classrooms and Consolidation and Feedback
How do you make sure students are thinking deeply to integrate new knowledge and growing academically? Peter Liljedahl discusses a process of consolidation and feedback that he and the teachers he worked with found effective for just this purpose. Read the blog to find out more.
Using Thinking Task To Build Autonomy In Students
One problem teachers face is how to build independent, thinking students. Students who don’t give up easily and can persist through a challenge. Thinking tasks are a strategy that can help build a thinking community in the classroom. Read on to learn more.
The How, The When, The Where of Assigning Thinking Tasks
How, when, where teachers assign problems or thinking task matters. Choosing the optimal time and providing the context of the problem are key to helping students organize their thinking and engage in the learning process. In this blog, I review Peter Liljedahl’s research on the how, the when and the where. Read on to find out more.
Thinking Classrooms and Classroom Layout
How furniture is arranged in the classroom can impact student engagement and learning. Peter Liljedahl investigated this impact on students’ expectations, thinking, and behaviors in his book, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics.
Thinking Classrooms and Randomized Groups
Building thinking classrooms includes grouping students appropriately to maximize their engagement, participation and learning. The best way to do this is with randomized groups. Read my blog to learn more about Liljedahl’s research on randomized groups.
Learning Why to Disrupt Teaching Norms
As a tutor and educator, I need to use strategies that disrupt habits of not thinking and getting by. This book study of Peter Liljedahl’s book, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, explores the research and proven strategies that will increase students’ engagement, thinking, and learning.
Using Challenges to Get Students Thinking
Using challenges or puzzles at the beginning of a lesson will help engage students in the lesson and learning process. Challenges like this not only engage students in the learning process, but they also provide a quick informative assessment that can help you determine what students need.
Holiday Learning Strategies, part 2
Using a connect five game during interventions to review foundational math concepts for multi-digit multiplication. This is a great way to support student learning and review key concepts.
Holiday Learning Strategies
Halloween is coming up.
As a Special Educator and teacher I find that students need a bit of leeway on the days leading up to, the day of, and the day after Halloween. I like to use those days to review concepts previously covered by playing games.