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Stern, Julie; Ferraro, Krista; Duncan, Kayla; Aleo, Trevor – Corwin, 2021
How do you prepare your students for a future that you can't see? And how do you do it without exhausting yourself? Teachers need a framework that allows them to keep pace with our rapidly changing world without having to overhaul everything they do. "Learning That Transfers" empowers teachers and curriculum designers alike to harness…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design, Case Studies
Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; Campbell, Thomas C., Ed.; Dykstra, Dewey I., Jr., Ed.; Stevens, Scott M., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2009
This book is intended to offer college faculty members the insights of the development of reasoning movement that enlighten physics educators in the late 1970s and led to a variety of college programs directed at improving the reasoning patterns used by college students. While the original materials were directed at physics concepts, they quickly…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), College Instruction, College Students, Textbooks
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Beyersdorfer, Janet M.; Schauer, David K. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Offers an eight-stage activity which promotes critical thinking. Notes that the activity starts with analysis of literary characters and culminates with presentations based on interviews of respected adults. (PRA)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Critical Thinking, Holistic Approach, Interviews
Costas, Elaine Fowler – 1996
Although interviewing looks easy, it is much more complicated than it appears, and generally, students are not taught how to conduct an interview. Planning and preparation must include research about the subject of the interview and the person being interviewed. Good questions build on the question before, make the person being interviewed think,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Information Seeking
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Queenan, Margaret – Language Arts, 1986
Provides ideas for helping students find sources and discover a topic for a research paper and discusses students' research processes, focusing on the need to allow students time to make meanings out of the facts they gather. (SRT)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education, Interviews