This cutting-edge webinar with Julie Stern and Nathalie Lauriault, authors of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, will help you to promote depth and breadth of understanding by using learning transfer as both a means and an end goal of learning.
This webinar from Gravity Goldberg, author of Teach Like Yourself, offers special insight on how to use your gifts to be the teacher you’re uniquely intended to be.
Use this lesson from Learning Challenge Lessons, Elementary, by Jill and James Nottingham to discuss the concept of exploration with students. Includes three activities to try with your students.
Try out these lessons from Challenging Mindset with your students. Each lesson is designed to engage your students in cognitive conflict about some of the important concepts connected with mindset: influence, self-efficacy, heritability, development, challenge, resilience, and talent.
This diagram of the Learning Pit from Challenging Mindset describes the effects of mindset at each step the learning challenge journey.
Use this tool from Chapter 1 of Challenging Mindset to learn more about the impact your mindset can have and the next steps toward change.
Watch this interview with Gravity Goldberg about her book, Teach Like Yourself, and why she is devoted to encouraging teachers to teach like themselves, rather than trying to emulate others.
Use this poster from Teach Like Yourself by Gravity Goldberg to remind yourself of the importance of teaching in a way that is true to your own self.
Try out these inquiry peer observation methods from Experience Inquiry with your students to further develop their question-asking and question-seeking.
Use this self-survey from Experience Inquiry by Kimberly Mitchell to determine whether you are already teaching in an inquiry-based way.
In the following pages from Think Like Socrates, discover a new way to foster group writing with your students. Featured is a step-by-step lesson plan with directions on how to use.
In this lesson from Think Like Socrates, author Shanna Peeples provides complex texts for various grade levels and includes critical questions for debate and discussion amongst your students.