As I read the book, Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchart et al., I was struck by how similar his view of understanding is to Wiggins & McTighe’s Understanding by Design (UbD). Both see understanding as not just a gathering of knowledge, but as the ultimate goal of education. Both owe a lot to Benjamin Bloom and […]
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Introducing the Attitudes
As we teach Grade 1, we thought it was important to take some time to explicitly introduce the three Attitudes we are focusing on in this Unit of Inquiry: commitment, independence and enthusiasm. So even though we used inquiry as our stance, we didn’t necessarily make direct connections to the unit topic (community) in the […]