"They want kids to see the world differently, and to be empowered to act differently, because of what they have learned. It seems that the goal of all learning—not just conceptual understanding—is transfer." Read more from Julie Stern, author of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, on Corwin Connect.
Use the guidance in this section from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary, to begin a conversation with your students about how this type of learning might be different from what they are accustomed to doing.
Use this lesson framework from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, to guide your students through the process of generating and testing hypotheses to discover connections between concepts.
In this introduction from The InterActive Classroom, author Ron Nash discusses the role of iGen'ers in the classroom and how to bring them from being passive attendees to active participants.
Answer these important questions from The Co-Teacher's Playbook with your co-teacher team in order to set clear expectations and boundaries and to better understand each other as a team.
Complete this activity from The Co-Teacher's Playbook as a co-teaching team to take stock of your individual strengths and goals in order to better understand how you can better work together.
Use this lesson from 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning, Grades K-8, by Marcia Tate, with your students to help them decode multisyllabic words using commonly used affixes and roots and determine how these affixes change a word’s meaning.
Use this lesson from 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning, Grades K-8, by Marcia Tate, with your Grades 3-5 students to show them how to use repeated addition to calculate multiplication problems
Use this lesson from 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning, Grades 9-12, by Marcia Tate, to provide your students with helpful strategies to monitor comprehension while reading.
Use this math lesson from 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning, Grades 9-12, by Marcia Tate, with your students to help them apply algebra skills to finding areas of geometric figures.
This foreword from The School in the Cloud, by education researcher John Hattie, discusses how, with Sugata Mitra's model of schooling in the cloud, we can use the technologies that are now available to conceive of a totally different type of schooling.
This foreword from The School in the Cloud, written by a class of seven-year-old students, serves as an example of what students can do in a self-organised learning environment (SOLE).