Much of this comes from an exchange of emails I shared with a colleague. He remains convinced that grading is immoral. As a math teacher, grading is also of great concern to me given the prevailing view of math being …
(By Zengxu and Yang) Time: Thursday, 7:20 pm, March 17th. Place: Somervile, MA, US, 02143. We were on the top of Science Center, waiting to see the Mercury, which was of course much harder to find than this magnificent …
I teach a creative thinking class for three-year-olds, and I’ve been experimenting with different ways of adapting critical exploration for people with short attention spans who are new to many of the materials I show them. But I have come …
The work of Critical Explorers resonates with the ideas of globally renowned educators, authors, and activists, David and Frances Hawkins. Indeed, David was the first director of Elementary Science Study. To quote Eleanor Duckworth, “…David was the key I think …
No class at HGSE is more talked about by its students than T440. Unfortunately not all of us had the privilege of spending time in Professor Duckworth’s classroom and it is my understanding that we are currently unable to alter …
Just looking at an article in the NY Times that might be of interest . . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/garden/06play.html?ref=global-home “The Movement to Restore Children’s Play Gains Momentum http://www.nytimes.com Play helps develop crucial skills, advocates say as they try to pull children and …
I am teaching a creative thinking course for three-year-old kids and I use a very laid back, inquisitive style when working with the children. We do the same three big activities every class: Mix/make some kind of clay or dough, …
Lisa Schneier (2001) describes her role as “helping a group to develop a history of ideas”. The way that Professor Duckworth’s T440 course contains ideas which continually spiral back on each other through the classes, section meetings, readings and fieldworks …
Any ideas on how literacy and reading can be done through critical exploration?
Hi- I’m curious about kinds of projects others have had students do during or at the end of a critical exploration to help them push/clarify their thinking. Some examples of what I’m thinking about are: Assuming the role of a …