The ability to ask one's own questions is, indeed, one of the most important lifelong learning skills a student can acquire in the course of their education and, yet, it is rarely
deliberately taught to all students.
However, this skill is rarely, if ever,
deliberately taught to students from kindergarten through high school.
Not exact matches
Instead, we should be
deliberately teaching students how
to manage their attention with their devices and explaining what multitasking is doing
to their ability
to effectively complete their work.
Are comparisons between the United States and other countries truly equitable / comapable when the U.S. has a pluralistic approach
to teaching all children versus other countries in which
students are
deliberately grouped, tracked, and segregated into different ability classifications and restricted in their access
to higher levels of education?
Deliberately planning for and structuring frequent learning conversations offer powerful learning opportunities for teachers
to see learning through
students» eyes, and develop their next
teaching approaches.
We should be
deliberately teaching middle and high school
students how
to manage their devices.
That's why its important for adults
to stay aware of their perspectives of
students, while
students are
deliberately taught about thoughtfulness.
Kathryn Mancino, a 5th grade teacher at Two Rivers, has
deliberately taught three of our thinking routines
to students using the anchor charts above.
I'm obviously focusing on something like kindergarten in this case, but there's so much knowledge and so many skills that we take for granted that we need
to make sure we're
deliberately teaching students who haven't had the advantage of some of their peers.