by Ted Shaffner
Anthony Cannuli has made innovation in the classroom his highest priority this year. As the teacher of eighth-grade English, Mr. Cannuli has been looking for ways to make his teaching more student-centered. In order to do this, he has been applying a number of protocols from the book, Making Thinking Visible, by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church and Karin Morrison. In the video below, you can see Mr. Cannuli talk about several of these protocols - including Chalk Talk, Sentence-Phrase-Word, and Freeze Frame - and how his students have responded to them. He has also created activities of his own, capitalizing on the kinetic energy that his students have. These activities seem applicable to many different subjects and grade levels, and are a great way to put students in charge of their own education. I will definitely be using some of these in my classes!
