Title: Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics: Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning
Author: Peter Liljedahl
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“Building a thinking classroom” is about breaking away from institutional norms and finding new practices that will not only exhibit occasional thinking in students but will sustain consistent, ongoing student engagement and thinking. Much of how classrooms look and much of what happens in them today is guided by norms that have not changed since the inception of an industrial-age model of public education. In an effort to find a list of variables that impact thinking in a classroom, Liljedahl spent several months visiting classrooms looking for a way to disaggregate teaching into discrete factors, each of which could act as a variable in the pursuit to improve thinking in the classroom. In the end, a list of 14 such factors emerged including:
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