Essential Questions Excerpt The above quick quiz and accompanying excerpt are taken from McTighe & Wiggins (2013). Essential Questions: Opening the doors to student understanding. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. (p.9).
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The Skinny: Cooperative Learning
THE SKINNY ON COOPERATIVE LEARNING (#NTN) Here’s the skinny on cooperative learning. First, it differs from flexible grouping. Flexible groups work to develop a skill; cooperative groups work together to complete a task. COOPERATIVE FLEXIBLE Heterogeneous Homogeneous Shared Task Skill Attainment Student-Led Teacher-Led Roles & Responsibilities Practice/Rehearsal Changes by…
The New New Teacher Network
eduConsulting Firm has the charge of working with ILTs (Initially Licensed Teachers in years 1-3) at Bertie Middle School in Windsor, NC, during the 2014-2015 academic year. We are thrilled to count one of the goals of the initiative as increasing teacher retention. We believe that through the New Teacher Network (NTN) we can first…
End Product Ideas
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CLOSER Reading Questions
If you Google Close Reading, you will find a few scant questions that can be used to help facilitate discussions about fictional and nonfictional texts. We’ve expanded the usual lists, incorporating a range of questions that help teachers and students take a CLOSER look and make deeper analyses of texts. Generally, Close Reading Questions help…
What They Say…
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Great Schools Do Great Things
We are so fortunate to have the phenomenal opportunity to work with, visit, and develop a relationship with the awesome staff at Jones Middle School, Trenton, NC. We are super impressed with the concerted efforts of the administration, staff, and faculty to create enriching outreach experiences for their students. Want to talk about busy? Want…
Walls Do Talk
The proverbial clause “if these walls could talk” rings no truer than in the halls of schools. In schools, walls actually do talk. You just have to read them. Walls are great advertising spaces! Geneva Gay, an educational researcher and culturally responsiveness advocate, says what educators display on the walls of their classrooms advertises to…
10 Things We Know About Questions
Yes, we are obsessed with questions! We love them. We ask them, ponder them, research them, reconsider them, and try our best to answer them. Here’s 10 things from the field that we have discovered about questions: 10. Asking a ton! Teachers ask a ton of questions. On average, we have observed teachers asking anywhere…
The Power of Questions
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. ~Voltaire THE INTRO: We believe the questions individuals ask have tremendous power, and when teachers or students start asking questions, we really take note! Questions help us frame puzzling thoughts. Well-framed, thoughtful questions demonstrate our attentiveness to the subject at hand. Questions help us…
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