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What Is Emotional Intelligence?

Jan 29, 2022 | Teaching

What Is Emotional Intelligence? There are many different kinds of intelligence. Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences identifies eight types: Spatial (the ability to visualize three-dimensional objects) Naturalist (the ability to understand and read...

How Inquiry Teaching Can Help Us Through Divided Times

Jan 21, 2022 | Inquiry, Teaching

How Inquiry Teaching Can Help Us Through Divided Times by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD Educators and education, in general, are increasingly getting swept into the morass of culture wars and polemic battles playing out in our media and political processes...

Active Listening Strategies For Charismatic Student Conversations

Jan 19, 2022 | Teaching, Inquiry

What Are The Best Strategies For Teaching Students To Listen Actively? Active listening involves employing different behaviors to enhance understanding among two or more people in a conversation. An active listener is present in the conversation. They hear the...

50 Digital Team-Building Games For Students

Jan 6, 2022 | Technology Integration, Teaching

What Team-Building Games Can Be Used For Remote Teaching And Online Learning? As schools continue to monitor and adjust approaches to teaching and learning, educators moving their classes online may have challenges cultivating and sustaining a tight-knit, engaged...

$3 Ways to Foster Collaborative, Student-Centered Math Learning$

3 Ways to Foster Collaborative, Student-Centered Math Learning

Dec 15, 2021 | Teaching

3 Ways to Foster Collaborative, Student-Centered Math Learning contributed by Sophia Thomas and Evan Weiner As math educators, we know that math is more than just formulas and calculations. It’s about finding patterns you never noticed before, proving an idea for the...

What Are Costa’s Levels Of Questioning?

Nov 18, 2021 | Inquiry, Teaching

What Are Costa’s Levels of Questioning? Costa’s Levels of Questioning — designed by educational researcher Art Costa — feature three tiers of questioning designed to promote higher-level thinking and inquiry. Similar to Bloom’s taxonomy,...