Building thinking classrooms is a rapidly-growing educational approach that aims to help students cultivate critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and active engagement. It moves beyond the more sage-on-the-stage teaching styles that focus on information transfer, memorization, and passive learning.
Built on 14 key practices, it's a way of teaching that gets students on their feet, collaborating and thinking through challenging problems.
- What types of tasks we use in a thinking classroom
- How we form collaborative groups in a thinking classroom
- Where students work in a thinking classroom
- How we arrange the furniture in a thinking classroom
- How we answer questions in a thinking classroom
- When, where, and how tasks are given in a thinking classroom
- What homework looks like in a thinking classroom
- How we foster student autonomy in a thinking classroom
- How we use hints and extensions in a thinking classroom
- How we consolidate a lesson in a thinking classroom
- How students take notes in a thinking classroom
- What we choose to evaluate in a thinking classroom
- How we use formative assessment in a thinking classroom
- How we grade in a thinking classroom.