What behaviours do we observe in such a classroom?
Some thoughts...
How students behave?
- Students are able to demonstrate their understanding through various means...
- possess strong subject mastery
- which enables the teachers to see identify what the essence of the subject discipline, pitching the delivery at a level that learners are able to understand and make connections, hence making pathways for learners to move beyond the defined parameters (baseline) or to deepen their understanding.
- sound pedagogy
- adopt approaches and strategies to develop and level up students' cognitive intellectual abilities.
- Questioning is one of the key 'avenues' - several means include Paul's Wheel, Bloom's Taxonomy, Socratic Questioning.
- Curriculum Differentiation is another approach.
- Students demonstrated understanding of the intended learning outcomes; hence teachers have to design activities to bring out the understanding - in terms of the content, knowledge, skills, competencies
- There exists clear alignment/ coherence in the learning activities and learning outcomes
- Inquiry - to provide opportunities to learners to ask and find out more
Intellectual Standards
Some useful links...- http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/universal-intellectual-standards.cfm
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