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Tag: creative thinking
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The What If? Box – Free Resource
Put Creative Thinking At the Heart of Your Lessons Viewed and Downloaded 24,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 168 creative questions to get you and your learners thinking…
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Easily stretch and challenge your learners with more than a dozen strategies you can use to effectively differentiate right now
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Leverage the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy to bring critical and creative thinking into your planning, your activities and the lessons you teach
Critical and Creative Thinking Skills We can seek to directly improve the critical and creative thinking skills of our learners by providing challenge supplements that focus on these. A challenge…
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Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to create independence for your learners and give them the freedom to embrace challenge (and enjoy the experience)
Using Project Work to Stretch and Challenge Your Learners Project work is where we give learners an independent task to complete as they see fit, usually over an extended period.…
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A pair of questioning activities that change how the game is played and ask learners to think from a completely different perspective
If this is the answer, what might be the question? This activity is good to use at the start of lessons. It is engaging, pacey and affords learners a high…
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Why using ‘What If…?’ discussions is a secret shortcut to creative thinking in your classroom
What If … ? Discussion Strategy: Explanation This activity is all about speculation. It encourages learners to discuss possibilities and to imagine what might be the case. It challenges them…