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Teaching Students to Use Criteria

Teaching Students to Use Criteria

This resource clearly explains the importance of criteria in critical thinking. When students are invited to respond to critical questions, criteria enable them to carefully weigh the options and make reasoned judgments about those questions. The resource provides teachers with practical tools and s…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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How do we measure up?

How do we measure up?

Yvonne Denomy, vice principal and teacher librarian, describes an inquiry into children’s rights with grade three and four students that left her in awe as they were able to determine, locate, analyze, interpret, infer and judge from primary data.
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies, Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Engagement in learning: Finding the depth beyond diligence

Engagement in learning: Finding the depth beyond diligence

Bruce Beairsto discusses the active student engagement required for learning that will help students thrive in the modern world.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Introduction to the TC² conception of critical thinking

Introduction to the TC² conception of critical thinking

Roland Case explains that critical thinking involves making reasoned judgments in problematic situations.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Learning to Inquire in Social Studies: An Anthology for Elementary Teachers (e-Book)
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Learning to Inquire in Social Studies: An Anthology for Elementary Teachers (e-Book)

A favoured choice for post-secondary course instructors and their students for over 25 years. Now in its fourth edition, Learning to Inquire in Social Studies: An Anthology for Elementary Teachers brings together the work of prominent education scholars and the experiences of highly regarded teac…
Subjects: Social Studies, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Post-secondary
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Alternate Format: Print
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Using Thoughtbooks to Sustain Inquiry

Using Thoughtbooks to Sustain Inquiry

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to help students use the Thoughtbook format to capture their thinking and to revisit and refine their evolving work. See all of the titles in the Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms series
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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