Planning For Critical Thinking: A 5-Step Model
Planning For Critical Thinking: A 5-Step Model by TeachThought Staff Like anything else that you’d like to see happen in your classroom, promoting critical thinking skills is a matter of planning and...
View Article24 Things A Teacher Should Never Ask A Student To Do
24 Things A Teacher Should Never Ask A Student To Do by TeachThought Staff 1. Meaningless work It’s fine to start with an academic standard, but standards aren’t meaningful to students. Either make the...
View ArticleWhy Every Classroom Should Teach Digital Citizenship
Why Every Classroom Should Teach Digital Citizenship by Paul Barnwell, Teacher of English & Digital Media Students buzzed about the latest uproar on Instagram. Anonymous sources had posted a...
View Article5 Out-Of-The Box Assessment Strategies Every Teacher Should Know
5 Out-Of-The Box Assessment Strategies Every Teacher Should Know by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed., radteach.com & Terry Heick Most teachers and current textbooks offer varied approaches to the material...
View ArticleTeaching Introverts Is Different
Teaching Introverts Is Different by Terry Heick As education seeks to improve itself, the focus has been on data, research, and curriculum. The stuff teachers use. There is precious little discussion...
View ArticleStandards For Digital Citizenship In Graphic Form
Standards For Digital Citizenship In Graphic Form by TeachThought Staff ISTE has long had available technology standards to help promote informed use of technology by students. These standards are...
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7 Mistakes That Quality Assessments Avoid
7 Mistakes That Quality Assessments Avoid contributed by Daniel R. Venables, Founding Director of the Center for Authentic PLCs This post has been updated with additional resources and republished...
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Stop Teaching Classes And Start Teaching Children
Stop Teaching Classes And Start Teaching Children by Terry Heick Increasingly, the idea of computer coding is being pushed to the forefront of ‘things’ In movies, on the news, and other digital...
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42 Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts For Students To Design Their Own Projects
42 Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts For Students To Design Their Own Projects by Terry Heick So often, we make learning more complicated than it has to be. Local planning requirements are usually at fault...
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10 Innovative Learning Strategies For Modern Pedagogy
10 Innovative Learning Strategies For Modern Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff This is an excerpt from a report, produced in collaboration with SRI International, that proposes ten innovations that are...
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No Student Is Unreachable
No Student Is Unreachable contributed by Jeffrey Benson This post has been republished from a previous version As an educational elder with a lot of experience working with challenging students, I am...
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How Google Apps For Education Can Be Used In Your Classroom
How Google Apps For Education Can Be Used In Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff Like Apple and Microsoft, Google also wants a place in your classroom. Google Apps for Education is a free suite of...
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7 Characteristics Of Teachers Who Effectively Use Technology
7 Characteristics Of Teachers Who Effectively Use Technology by TeachThought Staff Ed note: This post has been updated with an updated visual from Sylvia Duckworth, who took our graphic from...
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50 Alternatives To Lecturing
50 Alternatives To Lecturing by TeachThought Staff Ed note: This post is promoted by SEU’S online masters in education programs. SEU simply asked us to write about how learning is changing and the...
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A Giant List Of Really Good Essential Questions
Many, Many Examples Of Essential Questions by Terry Heick Essential questions are, ask Grant Wiggins defines, ‘essential’ in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing...
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How To Burn Yourself Out As A Teacher
How To Burn Yourself Out As A Teacher by Terry Heick Several years ago, we published a post titled, Why Good Teachers Quit. Tens of thousands of social shared and scores of comments–later, it’s pretty...
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60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom
60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom by Terry Heick Google Classroom is quietly becoming the most powerful tool in education technology. It may lack the visual appeal of iPads, or the student...
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21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern...
A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology by Terry Heick Why do we need a framework? Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with the urgent pace of...
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How To Teach Students To Research Without Google
How To Teach Students To Research Without Google by Jane Healey, Ph.D Inquiry-based learning is one of the current buzz phrases, meaning students should ask and answer questions as a primary method in...
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How To Get Along With Teachers That Think Differently Than You
How To Get Along With Teachers That Think Differently Than You by Terry Heick While the call to innovate learning is strong, it isn’t an easy process for the classroom teacher even if they have strong...
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