Critical Explorers Teaching & Curriculum Sourcebook The Critical Explorers Teaching and Curriculum Sourcebook is an interactive guide to experiencing, understanding, and teaching Critical Explorers lessons. It allows educators to practice and review listening and questioning strategies, as well as CE …
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“The value of recalling past plagues was the simple fact of their being past. … Looking backwards was a relief from a present dominated by the epidemic, and from the plague’s warped temporality: the interruption of civic and liturgical rhythms …
In Spring 2012, I conducted an independent study at Critical Explorers, as part of my graduate course work. I had previously studied with Eleanor Duckworth and Elizabeth Cavicchi, and when I began this study, I was captivated and confused in equal measure by critical exploration.
The Khan Academy’s “flipped classroom” model has received a huge amount of media attention in the past few years.
I teach at a school that requires letter grades. At the close of this past semester, while reading my seventh-grade students’ reflections, I was struck by this paragraph from a girl who was discussing her “improvement over time”….
Much curriculum tends to be static: It prescribes what students should notice and what they should think. How can educators create curriculum that changes as students and teachers engage it — curriculum that engages students and all their varied observations and ideas? …
Conventional wisdom holds that effective teachers write the objective of each lesson on the board before class so that the students are aware of what the teacher intends them to accomplish. …
Our first, three-day teacher workshop, “Critical Exploration in the Grade 4 – 12 Humanities Classroom: An Introduction,” held in August, was focused on poetry as well as on history. …
What does it really mean to be a researcher? When we assign students a research project, how can we make the experience as authentic and engaging as possible? …