Hundreds of example lessons organized by differentiation techniques.
These are ideas I used to believe that now I think aren’t actually so great.
Oops!
I received surprisingly little training on how to ask questions, considering how many darn questions I asked!
My favorite way to reach “synthesize” – ask students to make a change and then
explain the effects of that change.
Take out a boring sample and embed great art, music, film, tv shows, and other classics into your lessons.
Every topic has some juicy controversy. Leverage it! Look for ambiguity, disagreements, dilemmas, and discrepancies in any topic.
Fuzzy problems are ambiguous. They are missing data. They have lots of right answers, but (more importantly) they also have
wrong answers.
Avoid boring examples and
go for the outliers! Everything’s more interesting when you’re working with unexpected examples.
Get your students’ thinking moving from specific to the abstract and then back again.