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Essential questions are the overarching questions that provoke thought and lead students to inquiry, meaning making and finally transfer, while understandings are the concepts and skills that students will use to be able to gain and draw inferences, make connections and apply the learning to new situations
There is some understandable confusion about the goal of transfer. When we say we want […]
The critical goal of transfer. Arguably transfer is the aim of any education. Given that there […]
One of the most interesting and revealing questions on our survey of middle and high school […]
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An idea is “big” if it helps us make sense of lots of confusing experiences & seemingly isolated facts. A big idea is a way of seeing better & working smarter.
Transfer happens only when we aggressively teach and test for understandings that are applied in situations.
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