Title: 4 Things Transformational Teachers Do | Edutopia
Headings: 4 Things Transformational Teachers Do
4 Things Transformational Teachers Do
By Todd Finley
1. Transformational Teachers Create Constructivist Experiences
What Does Transformational Teaching Look Like?
2. Transformational Instructors Teach Like Scientists, Artists, and Essayists
3. Transformational Teachers Model Symphonic Thinking
4. Transformational Teachers Facilitate Productive Struggle

Content: Transformational: Where students' active engagement in developing knowledge and skills, critical thinking, higher-order skills, and communication are facilitated by the instructor. It is difficult to accomplish transformational teaching without understanding and implementing constructivist pedagogy -- facilitating hands-on experiences --where students construct meaning through active learning. However, the checklist below suggests some tactics: What Does Transformational Teaching Look Like? What Does Transformational Teaching Look Like? pdf 455.73 KB
Have students ask questions and solve real-world problems. Questions should require students to: analyze, synthesize, create, empathize, interpret, reference background knowledge, defend alternative perspectives, and determine what they know and don't know. Organize students into learning groups.