Sparking Students’ Curiosity to Enhance Their Problem-Solving Skills (5.11.23)
Curiosity about small questions, or micowonderings, can help students solve problems in any discipline.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that signals the brain about the worth of a task, which directly impacts motivation to begin work and satisfaction of completion. Teachers who understand the connection between pleasure and motivation craft learning experiences with this in mind because they understand that students work more enthusiastically and more persistently when pleasure is associated with the task.
Curiosity about small questions, or micowonderings, can help students solve problems in any discipline.
Exposing students to amazing things creates a classroom environment where they feel creative, engaged, and primed to learn.
When students need to get their wiggles out so they can settle down to learn, this simple movement-based brain break does the trick.
Three strategies for weaving critical thinking into everyday learning. Researcher and education expert Bryan Goodwin highlights three strategies—structured problem solving, cognitive writing, and guided investigations—that help educators weave critical thinking
Giving students a chance to build a project based on a rubric they created can increase engagement and investment.
People, places, and problems offer rich opportunities for real-world learning. This unit design framework ensures engaging, aligned learning objectives, experiences, and assessments.
Teachers can take a step back and create lessons that put student explorations at the center of learning.
Work that emphasizes students’ developing skills instead of a graded product reminds them to see learning as their goal.
An occupational therapist offers a series of calming whole-body exercises for students to do as a class throughout the school day.
Filling in for an elementary teacher can be easier when substitutes have flexible go-to strategies to keep the class running smoothly.