by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Student Engagement
Independent critical thinking skills are among the top skills educators strive to give to their students. That’s because when we succeed at getting learners thinking independently, we’ve given them a gift for life. Once school is over they can then go into...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Information Fluency
You’re a teacher who is not only committed to being a different kind of teacher. At some point you may have told your learners that you will be different from many of their past teachers. Imagine saying to them, “My job here is to help you in cultivating independent...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
For the past few weeks, you have felt great about yourself as a teacher. Last year, you lectured to your students in class after class. Most of your students seemed uninterested and almost never volunteered to say anything when you tried to start a class...