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    How to encourage in-depth thinking: Main-Side-Hidden
    Hannah Young
    • Oct 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    How to encourage in-depth thinking: Main-Side-Hidden

    I do believe that our young people need to be nurtured and while this undoubtedly can happen in the home, it can also happen in the class
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    The 3 Y's
    Hannah Young
    • Sep 28, 2020
    • 3 min

    The 3 Y's

    I introduced a new 'Thinking Routine' to help us investigate this issue. This routine is taken from 'The Power of Making Thinking Visible'
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    How to break down learning barriers: UDL
    Hannah Young
    • Sep 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    How to break down learning barriers: UDL

    I recently enrolled and completed a month-long online course with The Harvard Graduate School of Education. The course brought together glob
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    How can we teach sustainable thinking?
    Hannah Young
    • Sep 16, 2020
    • 4 min

    How can we teach sustainable thinking?

    The main aim of the The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is...
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    Should Statues Of Individuals And Monuments Of Events That Are Controversial Be Removed?
    Hannah Young
    • Sep 15, 2020
    • 4 min

    Should Statues Of Individuals And Monuments Of Events That Are Controversial Be Removed?

    I am really keen that my students are able to have the time and space to think and discuss issues that are not part of our national...
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    Making Thinking Visible: Peeling the Fruit
    Hannah Young
    • Sep 14, 2020
    • 4 min

    Making Thinking Visible: Peeling the Fruit

    I spent the past 5 months creating digital teaching resources and now that I find myself back in the classroom with real-life students, I...
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    The effect of international terrorism on individuals in Nigeria
    Hannah Young
    • Jan 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    The effect of international terrorism on individuals in Nigeria

    The effect of terrorism that we dealt with today course was poverty. After a discussion about poverty
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    Contemporary international issues: US-Iranian Crisis January 2020
    Hannah Young
    • Jan 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    Contemporary international issues: US-Iranian Crisis January 2020

    As a teacher of Modern Studies and Politics as well as History, I am tasked with teaching and discussing contemporary socio-economic and pol
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    Is curiosity one of the most important pathways to success?
    Hannah Young
    • Dec 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    Is curiosity one of the most important pathways to success?

    The following is an article I wrote for a school magazine reflecting on the importance of cultivating an environment where questions are...
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    Encouraging critical thinking and prediction casting
    Hannah Young
    • Dec 16, 2019
    • 5 min

    Encouraging critical thinking and prediction casting

    Whenever I am planning a History lesson, I always consider the skills that I am going to develop among my students. I like to teach...
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    Developing meta-cognitive skills through Sketchnoting
    Hannah Young
    • Nov 21, 2019
    • 4 min

    Developing meta-cognitive skills through Sketchnoting

    I wanted to share a recent learning and teaching experience I had with a Form II class (aged 13/14) while teaching them about democracy....
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    Meta-cognition and the evaluation of historical skills
    Hannah Young
    • Nov 14, 2019
    • 4 min

    Meta-cognition and the evaluation of historical skills

    Focusing on meta-cognition skills in the teaching of History
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    How to boost real learning in the History classroom
    Hannah Young
    • Nov 13, 2019
    • 8 min

    How to boost real learning in the History classroom

    I have been redeveloping all of my Nazi Germany lessons of late as I decided this session to take a hard look at the effectiveness of
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    How to encourage a culture of real learning in 3 easy steps
    Hannah Young
    • Nov 13, 2019
    • 5 min

    How to encourage a culture of real learning in 3 easy steps

    How to encourage real learning in 3 easy steps
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