Essential Questions Themes & Essential Questions Framing Inquiry & Promoting Critical Thinking Click on the related files below to view essential questions. Themes and essential questions help to frame student inquiry and promote critical thinking. Teachers will use the designated grade-level theme to organize a multi-genre, thematic unit of study; the unit may last from 10 weeks (at a minimum) to 40 weeks (the entire year) at the teacher’s discretion. Good essential questions have some basic criteria in common: · They are open-ended and resist a simple or single right answer · They are deliberately thought-provoking, counterintuitive, and/or controversial · They require students to draw upon content knowledge and personal experience · They can be revisited throughout the unit to engage students in evolving dialogue and debate · They lead to other essential questions posed by students
Teaching Ideas - Free lesson ideas, plans, activities and resources for use in the primary classroom. Alumna sues college because she hasn't found a job NEW YORK (CNN) -- A recent college graduate is suing her alma mater for $72,000 -- the full cost of her tuition and then some -- because she cannot find a job. Trina Thompson has sued her alma mater, Monroe College of New York. Trina Thompson, 27, of the Bronx, graduated from New York's Monroe College in April with a bachelor of business administration degree in information technology. On July 24, she filed suit against the college in Bronx Supreme Court, alleging that Monroe's "Office of Career Advancement did not help me with a full-time job placement. The college responded that it offers job-search support to all its students. In her complaint, Thompson says she seeks $70,000 in reimbursement for her tuition and $2,000 to compensate for the stress of her three-month job search. As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. All About New York City
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Year 6 Lesson Plans The Rabbit, the Snakes and the River eBook, is a beautifully illustrated electronic book based on the traditional tale of the Muscogee tribe of North America, It has 3 different readability levels and also has voice over. This resource can be used for the traditional tales unit or the stories from other cultures unit. Click here for more details or enhancing writing, 12 spidergrams of onomatopoeic words for literacy lessons or cross curricular and creative work: Animal, Bird and Human, Cooking and Eating, Explosive and Impact, Machine and Electronic, Musical, Watery, Transport/movement. Colourful A4 sheets for wall display or laminate for desktop use. Click here for more details 'Sort-Er is a superb resource designed to make children's planning of writing more effective and more logical. Twelve printable spidergrams for extending pupils' vocabulary. 38 Printable Pages. Click here for more details Save the turtles! Is Delhi 'clean and green'?
Curriculum Units - Current Units ‘I can’ statements for subject-specific skills at KS1 and KS2 Where can I find a list of curriculum skills as 'I can' statements? This article links to a range of 'I can' statements for Key Stages 1 and 2, organised by subject. It also links to ‘I can’ statements for use with the P scales. Here we link to examples of 'I can' statements for individual subjects at Key Stages 1 and 2 (KS1 and KS2). Art Teacher resources on Mr Jennings' Pages for Teachers and Pupils include 'I can' statements for art. Art self-assessment sheets, Mr Jennings' pages for teachers and pupils (Adobe pdf file) Design and technology (D&T) Kent County Council has published 'I can' statements for D&T. D&T level sheets, Kent ICT (Word doc file) English Foreign languages Asset Languages lists 'I can' statements for listening, speaking, reading and writing. History Mathematics
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