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Habits of Practice

Nov 15, 2018
3 min

10 Habits of Practice in the thinking-centred classroom

Building a rich culture of thinking in our classrooms and schools is a long, complex, thrilling and challenging process (Ritchhart, 2015)...

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Simon Brooks

Apr 22, 2018
1 min

100 questions to ask your students during discussion

Teachers! Would you like to work on expanding the range of questions you ask your students during class discussions? Catch and Pass is an...

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Simon Brooks

Apr 21, 2018
6 min

Big Rock Number 4: Catch and Pass

Click here for 100 questions to ask your students during class discussion. I’m often asked what I believe to be the defining characterist...

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Simon Brooks

Jun 20, 2016
3 min

Creating a Culture of Thinking in the Mathematics classroom

What’s 38.5% of 120kg? Does that sound tricky? One of the wonderful benefits of being an educational consultant is the opportunity to wor...

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Simon Brooks

Jun 19, 2016
1 min

Expectations in a Culture of Thinking

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST How do our EXPECTATIONS for children, rather than expectations of them, help shape a culture of think...

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