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When to Go Deeper? When to Just Move On?

★ Bookmarked • For Teachers

When should teachers take the time to build an advanced version of something? And when should they just let students move along?

Updating Old Questions: Conflict and Character Change

★ Bookmarked • For Teachers

I update an old question about conflict and character change in the story Hatchet.

Improving Evaluative Questions

★ Bookmarked • For Teachers

How to improve questions at the “evaluate” level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Differentiate with Low Floors and High Ceilings

★ Bookmarked • For Teachers

Stop starting at grade level and stretching up. Start high and scaffold down. It’s simpler, and it actually works.

Lesson Makeovers: 3 Big Ideas

★ Bookmarked • For Teachers

After looking at dozens of lessons folks sent in, I came up with three big ideas to address.

Creating Sequences of Questions

★ Bookmarked • For Teachers

High-level questions on their own simply aren’t enough. We must create sequences of questions!

Complex Task: Academic Tournaments

★ Bookmarked • For Teachers

Who would win in the Tournament of Least Useful Geometric Shapes or Bravest Shakespearean Characters? Create an academic tournament and watch your students’ brains sweat!

Asynchrony: Developing At Different Rates (For Students)

For students! In some areas, a student may be shockingly advanced, while in others… surprisingly average. This is asynchrony in action.