Category: Classroom Teaching, Critical Exploration, Investigations, Programs

Critical Explorers Video and Teacher Testimonials

More Teacher Testimonials: “I just had the most amazing experience with my 6th-grade earth science kids. Thank you so much for the workshop and all the feedback. It has been so helpful and so revolutionary for me. I’m curious about …

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Category: Classroom Teaching, Critical Exploration, Investigations

Energy and Light: Experimentation in Teaching, Learning and Curriculum

Why does Critical Explorers search for primary materials — and develop curricula around those materials — as part of our work with teachers and students? What kinds of materials does this work require, and what makes it different from what …

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Category: Classroom Teaching, Critical Exploration, Investigations

CE Sourcebook Series

Critical Explorers Teaching & Curriculum Sourcebook The Critical Explorers Teaching and Curriculum Sourcebook is an interactive guide to experiencing, understanding, and teaching Critical Explorers curriculum. It allows educators to practice and review listening and questioning strategies, as well as CE …

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Protected: Critical Explorers Online Seminar for Educators

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Making Something from this Experience: Sources to support orientation and creation in the midst of the pandemic

“The value of recalling past plagues was the simple fact of their being past. … Looking backwards was a relief from a present dominated by the epidemic, and from the plague’s warped temporality: the interruption of civic and liturgical rhythms …

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Category: About, Classroom Teaching, Critical Exploration

Constructing History in the Classroom

In Spring 2012, I conducted an independent study at Critical Explorers, as part of my graduate course work. I had previously studied with Eleanor Duckworth and Elizabeth Cavicchi, and when I began this study, I was captivated and confused in equal measure by critical exploration.

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Reimagining a “Flipped” Classroom

The Khan Academy’s “flipped classroom” model has received a huge amount of media attention in the past few years.

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“Messing Up”

I teach at a school that requires letter grades. At the close of this past semester, while reading my seventh-grade students’ reflections, I was struck by this paragraph from a girl who was discussing her “improvement over time”….

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Creating Responsive Curriculum

Much curriculum tends to be static: It prescribes what students should notice and what they should think. How can educators create curriculum that changes as students and teachers engage it — curriculum that engages students and all their varied observations and ideas? …

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Objectively Speaking

Conventional wisdom holds that effective teachers write the objective of each lesson on the board before class so that the students are aware of what the teacher intends them to accomplish. …

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