Teaching Our Learners HOW to Think Not WHAT to Think During the Professional Learning days this week, our faculty worked collaboratively on the many matters that arose during the self-study last year, ahead of our re-accreditation visit by MSA (Middle States Association) and CIS (Council of International Schools) next March. There were also sessions that focused on refining strong pedagogical practices. One such session centered around how best to strengthen inquiry-based learning through visible thinking. The strategy of visible thinking improves deep learning through inquiry, with a focus on HOW to think as opposed to WHAT to think. This approach, which is at the center of the IB curriculum framework, is already commonplace at AISL and indeed many parents have commented that this approach is why their children study at this school. Teaching Children How to Think not What to Think is a crucial skill and the very nature of education in the 21st Century in our world today. Enjoy the article. And To Consider A Poem How Joy Works You could not stop it if you tried-- how this blessing begins to sing every time it sees your face, how it turns itself in wonder merely at the mention of your name. It is simply how joy works, going out to you when you least expect, running up to meet you when you had not thought to ask. - Jan Richardson Wishing you all a peaceful weekend.
Dr. Oli Tooher-Hancock Director American International School Comments are closed.
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