Workshop Speaker
Practices for Building Thinking Classrooms
As classical educators, we strive to get our students thinking. Are there practices we can add to our toolbox that can help us better engage student thinking? In Building Thinking Classrooms, Peter Liljedahl provides practices to implement in the classroom to help foster student thinking and collaboration. While Dr. Liljedahl primarily focuses on practices in mathematics classrooms, some of these practices can be practiced in other subject areas as well.
Traci Pile recently graduated from Lee University with a degree in mathematics education. However, her educational training started long before entering college. Ms. Pile has been passionate about teaching from a young age, and in high school had the opportunity to be a part of the Teaching as a Profession program. Through this program, she spent numerous hours in classrooms learning not only how to teach well but also observing how students best learned. Through her college training, Ms. Pile was challenged by professors to develop a classroom in which students were formulating ideas and stretching their minds. Now teaching math and logic at Highland Rim Academy in Cookeville, TN, Ms. Pile strives to use the knowledge she has gained and challenge students to use their ability to think well in the process of learning.