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Community High School of Vermont: Habits of Mind [Pdf]
Learn about the skill set called Habits of Mind, which includes creativity, managing impulses and applying persistance to the achievement of goals. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Curriculum Services Canada: Today's Learner for Tomorrow's World
This is a series of webcasts on literacy and numeracy from the Ontario Ministry of Education. It looks at ways to prepare today's students for a changing, complex future and how some classrooms are addressing this.
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National Autistic Society: Obsessions, Repetitive Behaviour and Routines
This article provide helpful strategies to use with students who struggle with changes in their routines and during transition times. Although the strategies are targeted toward autistic students, the coping strategies are appropriate...
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Harvard College: Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions
An article, written by two Harvard scholars, provides six steps to help students formulate questions.
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Kidshealth: Teaching Your Child Self Control
In order for a child to be successful some degree of self control is necessary. This site looks at how children can develop self control and how an adult should react if a child is demonstrates a lack of control.
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A More Beautiful Question: How Can We Teach Kids to Question?
This article discusses how to guide students in developing good questions, improving them, prioritizing their questions, acting on them, and reflecting on their learning. The writer is the author of books on questioning skills. Includes...
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Edutopia: 5 Ways to Help Your Students Become Better Questioners
The following blog gives techniques to encourage more questioning in the classroom environment.
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Scholastic: Helping Students Develop the Ability to Ask Good Questions
This article details ways help students ask quality questions during a classroom discussion. Examples and an activity are provided.
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Connections Academy: How Students Can Accept Criticism and Grow From Feedback
This teacher resource provides resources that will guide applying growth mindset to feedback and guiding students to accept criticism to help them grow as learners. A video that features "Famous Failures" is included.