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As an elementary teacher, I can’t help but notice that children today want quick answers and do not take the time to think things through.
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Scooped by Beth Dichter |
Scoop.it!
Beth Dichter's insight:
As teachers how can we help out students learn to think. Their world outside of school is filled with technology that often provides "instant gratification."
This post is split into four sections.
* We must teach our children to think.
* We must not underestimate modeling thinking.
*As we teach students how to think, we must include questioning as an integral part of the thinking process.
* Collaboration contributes greatly to learning.
Teaching students to think should begin at an early age and think-alouds are one tool to use. "Think-alouds are essential if we want our students to know the discourse that must take place in their brains when they are processing information. When students observe others performing an action it predisposes them to that activity on a subconscious level."
Additional information is available in the post.
Making it Fun!
In an age where children expect everything to be instant, their responses become the same without taking time to process the information first.