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At Jesse Boyd Elementary, teaching and learning is conceptual. Key Concepts define the types of questions that can be used to thoroughly explore any topic or inquiry. Students and teachers use the key concepts to create questions, expand understanding and comprehension, and to delve deeper into the curriculum. Imagine a subject or area that you might like to learn more about. Concepts create building blocks for learning.
Key concepts drive transdisciplinary learning. They are timeless, significant, universal and allow students to engage in higher order thinking in a meaningful way.
Try this at-home challenge: Look for ways to guide your student's many questions using these concepts.
These support higher-order thinking and provide lenses for considering knowledge related to the central idea in a range of ways
Form
What is it like?
Function
How does it work?
Causation
Why is it as it is?
Change
How is it transforming
Connection
How is it linked to other things?
Perspective
What are the points of view?
Responsibility
What are our obligations?