There’s no debate that advancements in digital technology and information sharing are valuable educational tools. However, access to seemingly endless news and information creates a few dilemmas. One of them is how to determine the ...
By Joel Pardalis, sixth-grade teacher at New Fairfield Middle School in New Fairfield, Connecticut
Teach students the value of different types of questions. Initially, we start off talking about open versus ...
We’re grateful to Joel Pardalis, sixth-grade teacher at New Fairfield Middle School in New Fairfield, Connecticut, for writing this guest post about how he discovered the benefits of effective questioning and how to get students ...
We know classrooms are full of polar behaviors. Some students won’t stop talking; others never speak up. There are students who truly know how to listen; while many of them think listening is simply not talking. Strong oral ...
Nothing makes our day more than hearing positive feedback from educators! Tricia Bauche, director of curriculum and instruction at St. Joseph School in St. Charles, Missouri, recently attended our Shared Inquiry Essentials course ...