Mike’s Blog
Strategies, Ideas and Insights for Teachers and Leaders
Tag: trial and error
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Celebrate mistakes and change how your learners think about getting things wrong, what failure means, and why trial and error matters
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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Seven strategies you can start using right now that will subtly shift how learners think about your feedback
Focussing on processes means giving learners feedback about how they think and the things they do when creating work. Processes are inherent to learners; the products they produce are external…