THIS week’s article is a guide on how teachers can apply in their classrooms the concepts discussed in the last two articles on questioning. As noted last week, the practicality of Bloom’s taxonomy in ...

“My mother made me a scientist,” recalled physicist Isidor Rabi, Nobel Prize laureate. “‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you ask a good question today?’” Another Nobel laureate, Elie Wiesel, has likewise ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

(This is the third post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Part Two ‘s contributors were Sean Kelly, Sidney D’Mello, Shelly Lynn Counsell, Dr. Jennifer Davis Bowman, ...

As educators, we often hear about the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to our students. What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and ...

QUESTIONING is a tool that has long been in use by teachers. A quote credited to Albert Einstein says, “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the ...