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Direct linkAukerman, Maren – Educational Leadership, 2006
How should a teacher respond when a student makes off-base guesses about meaning in a literary text because that learner is trying to genuinely understand the story rather than find the "right" meaning? Aukerman argues that when teachers jump in to correct students' interpretations, they short-circuit students' processes of reading and thinking.…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedHaroutunian-Gordon, Sophie – Educational Theory, 1998
Discusses how to teach people to think, examining how reflective thinking occurs in interpretive discussion and emphasizing interpretive discussions found in all classrooms at all levels. Presents a musical example, a literary example, and a classroom conversation to support the hypothesis that questions evolve as a cluster, growing as discussants…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion, Higher Education
Peer reviewedYenawine, Philip – Theory into Practice, 1998
Argues for liberating factors in education (student-centered practice, open-ended discussion, and art as a subject). Describes the "Visual Thinking Strategies" teaching method, which focuses on structured but open, group discussions about diverse art objects in order to help viewers develop a rapport with art, increase aesthetic…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Cooperative Learning, Democracy
Peer reviewedWegerif, Rupert; Mercer, Neil – Language and Education, 1996
Proposes an approach to teaching reasoning through classroom conversation that integrates group work around computers into curriculum-related activities. The article examines research on collaborative learning and describes a program in which the computer is used to direct children's explicit, joint reasoning in curriculum-related activities. (79…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction
Download full textSmith, Stephen P.; Featherstone, Helen – 1995
The focus in this report is the concept of what it means to "do mathematics" in the context of a group working committee of teachers and researchers committed to reforming mathematics teaching. During a regular meeting of this group of teachers and researchers, the participants explored the mathematical reasoning embedded in one…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Tavalin, Fern; Quinn, Regina; Boke, Nick; Lavigne, Jane – 2000
Using the example of Taking a Stand in Cyberspace, the authors articulate issues confronting school, community, and higher education groups as they create online discussions geared to deepen the level of student discourse about literature. Through a collaboration between the Vermont Center for the Book, the WEB Project, and six Vermont schools,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
