Category: Conceptual Teaching
Seven Thoughts about Chapter Two of Erickson’s Concept-Based Learning
How do we address the need to continually teach ideas and skills in different subjects? Why does persuasive writing in English not seem to transfer to other subjects?
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40 Ideas about concept-based teaching – chapter 2
Generalisations have many names. They can also be called: an enduring understanding; a statement of inquiry; or a central idea.
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8 Questions for Reflection: Chapter 2 of Concept-Based Learning by Erickson
What is the difference between two-dimensional and three-dimensional curriculum?
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50 Initial Thoughts about Concept-Based Learning
This post serves as 50 initial thoughts about concept-based learning based on a course.
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can concept-based learning help you teach and write better thesis statements?
The Teaching of Literature Should be Led by Ideas Literature is not a subject in itself. It has a...
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Why consider Concept-Based Curriculum? Five Necessary Thoughts
CBL aims to create intellectual character. This is a worthy mission. Not every teacher has the cultural literacy to do so immediately, but every teacher should have the tools to strive for intellectual character.
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Book Study on the First Chapter of Concept-Based Learning – 6 Questions
My classroom focuses on thinking. It prioritises academic thought, but it is inclusive of people that did not choose to take my subject. It is a place of dialectic where students are expected to argue for and against that they may or may not believe in, and to come to conclusions they can aptly defend.
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Assessment For Learning – Warnock or Guardiola? A review of Dylan Wiliam’s ‘Embedding Assessment for Learning’
Part of my summer reading has been a review of Dylan Wiliam’s ‘Embedding Assessment for Learning’...
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Using Total War as an ECA: Decisive Battles in History and Exploring Literary Context
Exciting students in history opens them to wider cultural trends. In Beijing I ran, with the able...
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Being a Lifelong Learner – Thoughts about Teaching After 15 Years (and why most teachers don’t improve after 3-5 years)
An Easter of reading raises some old truisms: That most teachers do not ‘improve’...
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Podcast Libraries – Educating Yourself beyond a Curriculum
Teaching students for fifteen years has allowed me to recognise some of the deficiencies of my...
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TedX Presentation on Confidence: No Difference between Real and Fake Confidence?
A student that I taught at the beginning of my international career spoke profoundly well at a...
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