This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 206 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode, we will be learning about an incredible approach to collaborative classroom instruction

that comes from mathematics but will hopefully someday be a fixture in every subject area.

It's called thinking classrooms.

This episode was supposed to be just for math teachers.

I was going to share an instructional approach that as dramatic as it sounds has taken the math world by storm.

The methodology is called thinking classrooms and now that I have gotten a closer look at it,

I can see that it could work in just about any content area.

Built on 14 key practices, it's a way of teaching that gets students up on their feet,

collaborating and thinking through challenging problems on a daily basis.

When I first saw a video of this strategy and action, I was immediately captivated.

And the more I learned about it, the better it got.

Thousands of math teachers are already using this approach and it's spreading to other subject areas as well.

So if you're a math teacher, you'll definitely want to stick around for this.

And if you teach something besides math, I feel pretty confident that this is something you are going to want to learn about too.

My guest today is Dr. Peter Lilliedall, professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia,

creator of the thinking classrooms method, and author of the book Building Thinking Classrooms.

In this episode, Peter describes how a thinking classroom is different from one that uses more traditional teaching methods,

explains the how and the why behind a handful of the methods 14 practices, and offers advice for teachers who want to get started.

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