Tony Dowden

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How can teachers promote substantive and meaningful learning as students make the transition from primary to high school?

Given that young adolescents are more at risk of not coping with developmental and social changes than at any other stage of life, what recommendations would you make about designing curriculum...

19 August 2014 3,288 24 View

How do we improve higher order thinking skills among our students?

I find it concerning that some test and exams still mainly focus on the ability to rote learn information then regurgitate it. Bloom's famous taxonomy of higher order thinking starts with the...

22 February 2014 3,807 23 View

The concept of curriculum integration has often been maligned and discarded but it keeps making a comeback. Why is this so?

Curriculum integration (CI) has been utilised by democratic educators because it maximises flexibility for curriculum design and, as research shows, it actively engages students in their learning...

21 February 2014 9,287 7 View