{"id":55,"date":"2011-03-17T03:55:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:11:12","slug":"a-visit-to-falcon-academy-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to Falcon Academy &#8211; Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>posted by Bereket Aweke<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/falcon-academy2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?attachment_id=58\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/falcon-academy2.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"falcon-academy2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/falcon-academy2.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/falcon-academy2.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-58\" title=\"falcon-academy2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/falcon-academy2.jpg?resize=210%2C158\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\"><\/a>On March 11, 2011 I visited Falcon Academy, a school with two Branches in Addis Ababa and more than 2500 students from Pre K \u2013 College Preparatory. The school is one of the many schools who took part&nbsp;in the October, 2010 professional development training. The following video clips are of students using Thinking Maps and talking about thinking. See the post a couple of days ago for a teacher&#8217;s reflections on the Thinking Schools training and the use of Thinking Maps.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>A Student Demonstrating A Thinking Map<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Student Demonstrating A Thinking Map\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-3Uc5Hhh0lU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em>A Student Commenting #1<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A student Commenting #1\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DUyAtS0LJ8k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em>A Student Commenting #2<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Student Commenting #2\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3_687G9wNEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>posted by Bereket AwekeOn March 11, 2011 I visited Falcon Academy, a school with two Branches in Addis Ababa and more than 2500 students from Pre K \u2013 College Preparatory. The school is one of the many schools who took part&nbsp;in the October, 2010 professional development training. The following video clips are of students using&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=55\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Visit to Falcon Academy &#8211; Students<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","gallery-content-unit","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7oKjh-T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43,"url":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=43","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":0},"title":"A Visit to Falcon Academy","author":"admin","date":"March 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"posted by Bereket AwekeOn March 11, 2011 I (Bereket Aweke) visited Falcon Academy, a school with two Branches in Addis Ababa and more than 2500 students from Pre K \u2013 College Preparatory. 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