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Re-thinking your goal, your mission, your individual purpose, your passion project…
Here is a list of nine ways to think about your direction in life.
When I was a kid, I
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Open Inquiry: A Guide to Getting Started
Student-led inquiry is one of the best ways for students to learn and retain content, and for them to learn
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Guided Inquiry Learning
Inquiry-Based Learning: The Basics
Think of it this way: inquiry can be defined as the process of asking a question
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What is Inquiry-Based Learning?
Learn the fundamentals about teaching in an Inquiry-based learning methodology.
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Inquiry in Social Studies
Learn the specifics about teaching Inquiry-Based Learning in your Social Studies classroom.
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Inquiry-Based Science
The scientific method of asking a question, doing background research, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis by designing and completing
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What Diversity and Inclusion Strategies Really Work?
With so many diversity and inclusion strategies out there, what really works? Beagle Learning CEO, Turner Bohlen, shares research and proven best practices.
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ONLINE LEARNING: Four Steps to Preparing an Open Inquiry Course
Read our easy four steps on incorporating open inquiry into your curriculum!
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A Podcast We Love: Reboot Revolution Episode Talks Bringing Inquiry to K-12
Listen to this podcast about different and easy ways to incorporate Inquiry into K-12 classrooms!
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How to Improve Research Skills for Students (And Overcome These 5 Common Obstacles)
Read on how to level up your research skills and to leave old strategies behind!
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I Stopped Lecturing so That My Students Could Own Their Learning
Read one professor's journey from lecture to inquiry-based learning in gender studies. Pick up her strategies and learn the benefits of inquiry-based learning.
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A Three-Step Process for Making Your Lecture Interactive
According to research by Freeman S, et al. when using active learning compared to traditional lecture students’ average failure rate decreased by 12% and performance on identical or comparable tests improved by nearly half of the standard deviation of the test scores (an effect size of 0.47).
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The Joy and the Fear of Learning: Ideas on How to Run an Undergraduate Research Course
Learn more about a new approach to undergraduate education, in which students are taught the key life skills that are all too often reserved for graduate school.
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Are Some Questions Better Than Others? Assessing Questions with Students [Rubric Download]
We think the secret to learning, the secret to progress, the secret to leading, is for the learner to ask great questions. Learn more about how questions drive us forward. Because without the right question, we’ll ever ever get to the right answer.
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Any Questions? How to Turn Student Silence into a Conversation
I now cringe whenever I hear a speaker say, “Any questions?” Few of us are ever jumping out of our
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How We Teach Problem-Solving, Or, A Step-by-Step Guide for Having Questions Lead Your Learning Experience
This is the fourth in a series of blogs on on questions in the classroom, following Turning Around Question-Asking in
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Turning Around Question-Asking In Your Class
Three years ago I was nervously facing my first experimental class, a class at the end of which I planned
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Learning in a Content-Saturated Environment
Mastering existing content is no longer enough; in today’s world we also need to master the process of learning,
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Teaching Trigonometry with Inquiry Learning: A First Step?
Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, and exploratory learning are terms we often hear today. Even if we don’t know what
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High Hedonistic and Low Fatalistic: The Importance of Optimism and Agency in Life and in Education
Reprinted with permission from Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures (2017) Ed. Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich
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Ambiguity and Nuance — Even In Mathematics
Mathematics is often seen as the epitome of a study of hard facts: answers are either right or wrong, concrete
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Teaching One World
We all may truly want the same things for our students. A big question started as a little doubt, a
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![Virtual Team Success: 10 Best Practices for Managing a Global, Remote Team [Example]](/content/images/size/w100/2024/07/setting-meeting-norms-1.png)
Virtual Team Success: 10 Best Practices for Managing a Global, Remote Team [Example]
Navigating work is hard enough without the juggling of technology, coworkers, and scheduling. Read below our article on the best tips on managing a global remote team to help bridge that gap of difficulty that your company is currently facing.
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