Like many schools these days, mine has a Thinking Teaching group. We get together as often as we can to discuss ideas around teaching and best practice. The group is very diverse and very vocal and very stimulating.
The rules are:
- There are no leaders, only moderators.
- You must do some background reading. Your thoughts and experiences in the classroom are important, but so is the latest research.
- We will all try to find something to try out in the classroom.
- No one person may speak for more than a few minutes.
- At the end of each session, a topic for the next one is decided.
- Sessions last an hour.
Here are some topics I would like to explore. Perhaps you, dear reader, could make use of them. Perhaps you could even add a few you would like to see in the comment box below…
- Become a Google ninja (How to get the best results, fight plagiarism and make the internet your friend).
- How not to be frightened of technology.
- Can we teach wisdom?
- Teaching beyond the test.
- Handling grade Nazis (parents and students).
- Rethinking learning spaces.
- How to hack the curriculum.
- Projects vs. project-based learning.
- Finding the time.
- Infusing critical thinking across the curriculum.
- What’s the point of creativity?
- Meta-cognition: providing a backstage tour of learning.
- Why we need to teach children to think.
- 20% time.
- Flipping everything (Lessons, Bloom’s and Assessments).
- App exchange hour.
- Collaborative Learning and Teaching
- Design Thinking In Education
- Philosophy to Enhance the Curriculum
- The Value of Failure
- Teaching Boys Better
- 20% Time
- Google Apps and File Management
- Advanced Ipad Training
- Plagiarism-Proofing Your Assignments
- Inter-Departmental Integration
- The Most Useful Word and Excel Tips and Tricks
- YouTube Like A Boss
- Teaching the Controversy
- Why Finland Does It Better
- Blogging For Teachers and Students
- Teacher Burnout
- Games in Education
- Create Better Presentations
- The Principles of 21st Century Education
- Brain-Based Learning
- From Degrading To De-grading
- Twitter in the Classroom
- Digital Teaching and Learning Best Practice
- Crowd-sourcing in the Classroom
