10 Team-Building Games That Promote Collaborative Critical Thinking 10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking by TeachThought Staff One of education’s primary goals is to groom the next generation of little humans to succeed in the ‘real world.’ Yes, there are mounds of curricula they must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test. Other skills must be honed, too, not the least of which is how to get along with their peers and work well with others. Students must be engaged and cooperation must be practiced, and often. 10 Team-Building Games That Promote Collaborative Critical Thinking You can purchase a classroom-ready version of team-building games that promote critical thinking here. 1. This team-building game is flexible. Then, give them something to construct. Skills: Communication; problem-solving 2. This activity can get messy and may be suitable for older children who can follow safety guidelines when working with raw eggs. Let their creativity work here. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 10.
8 Steps to Creating a Virtual Employee Onboarding Program 5. Use breakout rooms, frequent check-ins, and superanimated facilitators to keep new hires engaged When Kelly’s team switched to an all-virtual footing, they had never heard the term “Zoom fatigue,” but they immediately understood how much more work they would need to do to keep participants engaged. “I am about one and a half to two times more animated when facilitating virtually than nonvirtually,” Kelly says. In order for Kelly and other facilitators to stay focused on content and connections, they always work in tandem with a partner who focuses on managing the technology. To keep participants engaged, Kelly has some other tricks she uses frequently. She puts a lot of her energy into being an active listener, so that if one new hire talks about owning a cat, later in the morning Kelly may ask, “I remember from earlier that you have a cat — has that contributed to your happiness working at home?” 6. Some companies also ask new employees to take part in a rotating coffee klatch. 7. 8.
20 Unpopular Opinions! by Lars Avemarie – The Sports Physio I’m pleased to give you another guest blog this time from Lars Avemarie who isn’t afraid to question and challenge many things, including me, which can at times make him unpopular. As someone who is also unpopular for saying some things, Lars has done a blog on his most unpopular opinions. So without further ado, it’s over to Lars. I hold many science-based opinions, but most of them are unpopular because they go against the old dogmatic views that are within the pain management and physiotherapy profession. As noted by Barradell 2017 physiotherapy (like other industries) has a tendency to be tied to specific ways of seeing the world and these are passed down from old generations of physiotherapists to new physiotherapy graduates. This dogmatic way of training and teaching is one of the major reasons that is holding the physiotherapy profession back from taking a more modern and science-based view of pain management. The real losers in this sad situation are our clients. Like this: Related
12 Curriculum Planning Tips For Any Grade Level Or Content Area 12 Curriculum Planning Tips For Any Grade Level Or Content Area by Terry Heick Learning is really just a growth in awareness. From not knowing to knowing is part of it, but that’s really too simple because it misses all the degrees of knowing and not knowing. One can’t ever really truly understand something any more than a shrub can stay trimmed. Understanding is the same way: it’s fluid. Yes, this sounds silly and esoteric, but think about it. In fact, so little of the learning process is unchanging. Design. And so how students use this skill or understanding. And further how we, as teachers, “teach it.” Making Learning A Process That Honors Change The implications of awareness reach even further than that, however. It’s more than merely “understanding” or not, and grasping changing contexts for that understanding. This could be thought of as “depth of understanding,” a term that produced a DOK framework for measuring understanding that’s still used in many districts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Empathy: Beyond the Jargon - Microsoft Design 5 insights from relationship therapy, zoos, ethics, and journalism on bringing empathy to the forefront Empathy has long been touted as a critical component for business success and positive employee and customer outcomes. As designers, we frequently discuss the value of empathy in our industry. Often this is a result of a mismatch between positive intentions, like “Let’s have more empathy!” As a strategist, I partner with universities, Microsoft teams, and companies around the world hoping to bring the value of empathy into their culture and processes. How can we go beyond interviewing customers, finding problems, and fixing things to truly building innovative experiences that amplify, augment, and unleash human potential? We explored these questions through different lenses. “A requirement for empathy is openness,” she said. She laid out five steps to practice empathy in any interaction: 1. John and Julie Gottman are world-renowned experts in relationships. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Højt blodtryk? Så er det ikke nok at spare på saltet Man har længe vidst at bordsalt er noget af det vigtigste, når det kommer til faktorer, man kan ændre på i forhold til blodtrykket. For meget salt, og dit blodtryk stiger, især hvis du i forvejen har forhøjet blodtryk eller er nyresyg. Fakta Historien kort Det er alment kendt, at for meget salt er en dårlig ting, hvis du lider af forhøjet blodtryk. Har du problemer med blodtrykket, skal du derfor passe på med mængden af salt (natrium-klorid, NaCl) i maden og ikke mindst saltlakridserne, chips, pizza og feta. I 2017 fejres 20-året for videnskabelig påvisning af kostfaktorers betydning for blodtrykket. Det såkaldte 'DASH'-studium ('dietary approaches to stop hypertension', på dansk 'kostmæssige tilgange for at stoppe forhøjet blodtryk') påviste, at systematisk ændring af kosten med øget indhold af blandt andet fibre, magnesium, calcium og ikke mindst kalium kunne sænke blodtrykket betydeligt. Mange studier – blandt andet helt nye fra Frankrig – bekræfter dette. Hvad er det nye? ForskerZonen
6 Tips For Creating Effective Student Groups 6 Tips For Creating Effective Student Groups by TeachThought Staff Grouping students is easy; creating effective student groups is less so. The following infographic from Mia MacMeekin seeks to provide some ideas to help make group work easier in your classroom. MackMeekin’s suggestion to consider problem-based learning in a group setting is especially useful in that it also provides a link to the design of curriculum and instruction as well, rather than merely being a grouping strategy. This highlights the ecology of teaching and learning; changes here necessitate adaptations there. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. image attribution Mia Mackmeekin; This work by Mia MacMeekin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License; 6 Tips For Creating Effective Student Groups
UDL + Design Thinking = Designing for All Learners Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and design thinking frameworks advance instructional design practice and should frame design from the start. In the first steps of design thinking, effort is focused on understanding by empathizing with the users and exploring the users’ challenges. Then you start to identify by ideation with resulting prototyping steps. A UDL mindset fused with design thinking supports continuous improvement in which, after implementation, a designer will use continual improvement to deliver content, evaluate, make changes, deliver newly designed or updated content, and evaluate again in a cyclical manner. Knowing Your Audience Talent developers are often encouraged to know their audience. Access Is More Than Accessibility It’s important for designers to view course design through the lens of the various ways learners can access the knowledge they need to meet the learning objectives, as well as and different ways facilitators can assess learners’ understanding.
Data der understøtter unges kamp imod ulighed. : Denmark 15 documentos imprescindibles para alumnos que trabajan por proyectos El proyecto EDIA recopila recursos que los alumnos necesitarán en distintas fases del trabajo por proyectos. También incluye otro elemento esencial: la autoevaluación del propio profesor. Los recursos facilitan el desarrollo de aspectos esenciales en la metodología ABP como la planificación del trabajo en equipo, la revisión del proceso de aprendizaje y la evaluación final del proyecto. Estos documentos forman parte de los REA del #proyectoEDIA para Primaria y Secundaria. Los alumnos pueden consultar y utilizar los documentos a medida que desarrollan su proyecto y siguiendo los hitos fundamentales de cualquier trabajo basado en ABP: organización de los equipos de aula, planificación de tareas y actividades, revisión del trabajo realizado y evaluación final del proyecto. Al acabar el proyecto, el profesor analiza el desarrollo del trabajo que había propuesto e incorpora su análisis al de los alumnos.
What is Facilitation? What Are the Differences Between Facilitation, Presentation, and Training? Trainers help others improve their performance by teaching, instructing, or facilitating learning. As such, facilitation and presentation are both tools in a trainer’s toolkit. Presentation vs. Facilitator Skills Facilitators can come from any background and a variety of experience levels. Listening. Questioning. Problem solving. Resolving conflict. Using a participative style. Accepting others. Empathizing. Leading.
Vi bør tage socialt ansvar HOLDNING // Danske Fysioterapeuter bør går foran, når det handler om at udfordre uligheden i sundhed. Sådan lyder det fra Nicolas Kjerulf, lektor fra Københavns Professionshøjskole. Hvor er Danske Fysioterapeuters fokus på den sociale ulighed i sundhed og i særdeleshed på de socialt udsatte borgere? I et Danmark, som aldrig har været rigere, er den sociale ulighed i sundhed desværre fortsat stor og sågar på nogle områder stigende. Fremtidsforskere advarer os om en fremtid for fysioterapeuter og andre sundhedsprofessioner, hvor behovet for vores ydelser vil stige eksplosivt på grund af flere ældre med kronisk sygdom og multisygdom. Der er derfor en kæmpe mulighed for at forebygge en stor del af sygdomsbyrden, hvis vi reducerer den sociale ulighed i sundhed. For at tage ulighedsproblematikken alvorligt bør Danske Fysioterapeuter forske i og udvikle en praksis, som nedbryder barriererne mellem sundhedssektor og socialsektor og som udforsker samarbejdet med den frivillige sociale sektor.
Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design Elements | PBLWorks It’s encouraging that Project Based Learning is becoming popular, but popularity can bring problems. Here at the Buck Institute for Education, we’re concerned that the recent upsurge of interest in PBL will lead to wide variation in the quality of project design and classroom implementation. If done well, PBL yields great results. But if PBL is not done well, two problems are likely to arise. First, we will see a lot of assignments and activities that are labeled as “projects” but which are not rigorous PBL, and student learning will suffer. Or, we will see projects backfire on underprepared teachers and result in wasted time, frustration, and failure to understand the possibilities of PBL. To help teachers do PBL well, we created a comprehensive, research-based model for PBL – a “gold standard” to help teachers, schools, and organizations to measure, calibrate, and improve their practice. Key Knowledge and Understanding Key Success Skills So what goes into a successful project?