Teaching and learning strategies for the thinking classroom

Abstract

Many teachers realize that engaged teaching and active learning are desirable. Teaching that encour- ages students to ask questions and look for answers, to apply what they have learned in order to solve problems, to listen to each other and debate ideas politely and constructively—this is teaching students can use in their lives. But knowing that these things are important is not the same thing as knowing how to make them work in the classroom with a crowded curriculum, short class periods, and many students