Three steps to getting the conversation going

  A quick update on what I implemented from #cohort21 over the past year (I was a participant in 2015-2016). My action plan was based on getting students to communicate authentically. I implemented a 3-step structure for conversations, which became the routine start of almost every class: Students ask each other questions posted on a … Continue reading “Three steps to getting the conversation going”

Killing two birds with one stone (using design thinking)

Faire d’un pierre deux coups. We have been working with design thinking at our school thanks to @Think_teach and of course here at Cohort 21. I felt pretty comfortable and enamored with the process, and had dabbled using it with my guinea pig class as a reflective assessment as learning tool. At a Round Square conference I … Continue reading “Killing two birds with one stone (using design thinking)”