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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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Brain science research is increasingly bolstering the idea that math instruction rooted in culturally relevant problem-solving helps students draw from their lived experiences and activates distinct areas of the brain, producing durable and deep learning.

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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Students use habits of mind like critical thinking, deep learning, and evidence-based decisions to decide on the right answers. Problem solving is integral to learning. Who doesn’t have problems every day that must be solved? This information doesn’t always agree on a conclusion.

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Strategies to Adjust ‘Up’ What Students Know

Middle Web

Emily Mofield offers a practical, realistic and highly readable set of 25 different approaches to teaching in her Vertical Differentiation for Gifted, Advanced and High-Potential Students, a book that almost any classroom teacher would find highly useful, writes Leslie Wise.

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The 8 Elements of Critical Thinking

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5 important critical thinking skills Critical thinking, as stated earlier, is an analytic framework that consists of several thinking skills some of which include: 1- Asking questions The ability to think critically starts with posing serious and deep questions regarding what is normatively considered valid and true knowledge. Engelhart, M.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

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AEROSPACE ENGINEERING – generally involves the design and construction of aeroplanes, jets, gliders, autogyros, helicopters and more, but the skills needed to do this can be applied to other areas. CIVIL ENGINEERING – the design and construction of infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, buildings, railways and utility networks.