"Encouraging Your Students to Engage in Deeper Thinking," by Heather Wolpert-Gawron is a recent blog post on Edutopia. The post is an excerpt from Heather's new book 'Tween Crayons and Curfews: Tips for Middle School Teachers. In this post, she explores lessons and activites that teachers can use to help encourage metacognition, think aloud, and storytelling as a means to teach commentary and deeper thinking.
Read the excerpt on Edutopia here.