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Tag: Critical Thinking

In the Halls of Justice: The Educational Value of Moot Court

“May it please the court.” For the past 13 years, I’ve heard middle and high school students utter these words in a simulated moot court competition.

The Power of a Good Question: Prompting Critical Thinking in Students

We ask students questions all day long, but how do we know they are actually helping students learn and, more importantly, getting them to think?

Critical Thinking and the Questioning of History Texts

While teaching a Western Civilization course to high school students, I found a unique opportunity to introduce the topic of critical thinking along with the subject matter.

10 Children’s Museum Field Trips for In-Person and Online Learning

Children’s museums can be excellent environments to foster creativity and curiosity through hands-on, multi-sensory environments.

Model UN and the Art of Diplomacy

The Model UN Club found me in 2013 in the shape of two very keen Grade 9 girls making a pitch to me at lunch about the need for more women in politics.

The Upside of Social Media: A Focus on Its Positive Potentials

Kids today are technology-savvy, but they need to be guided in asking the right questions about the content they produce and consume.

Starting a School Rubik’s Cube Club

Are you interested in improving student engagement with your ELL students? Here’s an idea that I tried at my elementary school that was both fun and successful—a Rubik’s Cube club.

4 Thrilling Escape Rooms to Visit with Students

An escape room is a thrilling game in which players of all ages collaboratively solve a series of puzzles in order to escape from a confined space in a limited amount of time.

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The Key to Decoding Reading Proficiency in K–12 Students

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A Smart Gateway to SEL: Digital Libraries

Introducing smART breaks: a free digital arts library that teaches SEL competencies to elementary school children.

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