by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Solution Fluency, Teaching
via TeachThought “I didn’t know they could think!” an excited high school principal blurted out. The principal was reacting to what he had just witnessed: his 9th grade students engaging in their first-ever Socratic Seminar, facilitated by my colleague and wife Denise...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
In any kind of learning, asking the best questions possible yields both vital knowledge discovery and powerful personal insights for the learner. Asking good questions is a fundamental practice in using the Essential Fluencies, especially Solution Fluency and...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
The Essential Fluencies are a solid foundation for effective modern learning. They cover all the bases of the skills students need for success beyond school. Developing these Fluencies in our students is a critical thinking journey in itself. That’s why...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
Essential project-based learning goes hand in hand with the Essential Fluencies. At its best, PBL is students working together on projects that they care about, taking ownership of their education, and becoming lifelong learners. It’s like D. Blocher once...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
An essential question is an incredibly powerful tool for discovery learning and critical thinking skill development. The truth is you can make any question essential with a few adjustments. Let’s see how to turn basic non-essential questions into essential ones....
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
Either in or out of school students have serious thinking to do when choosing career paths. In this case, having a list of meaningful questions can make that choice easier. Performance strategist Laura Garnett has provided a hundred of them in 100 Essential Questions...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
Achieving transformational learning begins the way all other learning does—with a question. When I’m working with schools around the globe, I’m always interested in the types of questions we ask our students in order to make their learning relevant,...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Future-Focused Learning
Asking meaningful questions is how transformation begins, and transforming your teaching practice is no different. Making lasting change for the benefit of all teachers and learners is why we do what we do. It’s also why we wrote our latest book Future-Focused...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
Students need to do more than memorize facts. They’ll write papers that give them an opportunity to analyze information and present their own conclusions. They’ll analyze important historical or scientific moments of our culture. They’ll give oral...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Professional Learning
Can our students benefit from the ultimate list of strong resume writing tips? Absolutely they can, and Corey Wainwright from Hubspot has them right here. The following list of over 40 resume writing tips comes from How to Write a Resume: Your Checklist of...
