Books Insights, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathemathics
Thinking Classrooms by Peter Liljedahl, practices for engaging learning
I had read Thinking Classrooms by Peter Liljedahl, the book is based on years of research and real practices with teachers and students across cultures, a wonderfull resource to create engaging and autonomous learning.
One of my favourite books.
Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathemathics by Peter Liljedahl
There are great insights as: how to set up the furniture and the groups, how to give the tasks, how to set up note taking, what to evaluate, and how to combine these practices in usual educational systems, among other topics.
Exploring today highly engaging tasks
After set up the base knowledge in a short period of time, minutes, the first questions are proposed.
Time is key here for the students and groups to think about the problem at hand and even share perspectives.
Highly engaging task are composed of minimal changes over the same problem, each change exploring a different aspect of the topic to learn.
It is important add different layers at the learning process, this involves: create, explain, teach and more.
This section is not a resume, it is a byte of information to spark curiosity so you read more about the topic or the book itself.
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