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8 Reflective Questions To Help Any Student Think About Their Learning
8 Reflective Questions To Help Any Student Think About Their Learning by TeachThought Staff For in-person professional development from TeachThought on reflection in learning or any other topic your...
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The Characteristics Of A Good School
The Characteristics Of A Good School by Terry Heick For professional development around this idea or others you read about on TeachThought, contact us. This post has been updated and republished from...
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A Classroom Of Proficiency: 6 Factors Of Academic Performance
A Classroom Of Proficiency: 6 Factors To Guide Your Teaching by Terry Heick First, a definition. An academic classroom is one where the primary goal is to promote proficiency of academic standards....
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How To Make Your Classroom Work More Like YouTube
How To Make Your Classroom Work More Like YouTube by Terry Heick Every minute, over 300 hours of new video are uploaded to YouTube. 70% of YouTube viewers use the platform to solve problems, and 86%...
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26 Sentence Stems For Higher-Level Conversation In The Classroom
26 Sentence Stems For Higher-Level Conversation In The Classroom by Terry Heick Note: You can purchase a similar, classroom-ready version of these stems on printable cards, if you find that useful....
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‘Information Flow’ As A Litmus Test For Quality Teaching
‘Information Flow’ As A Litmus Test For Quality Teaching contributed by Lee Carroll, PhD I’ve been thinking about Teacher Appraisals for years when finally it hit me like a flash—why can’t they be...
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10 Specific Ideas To Gamify Your Classroom
10 Specific Ideas To Gamify Your Classroom by Mike Acedo In today’s classroom, educators are constantly required to mold their teaching methods to give students the best opportunity to succeed. It is...
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12 Strategies For Creating An Atmosphere Of Problem-Solving In Your Classroom
12 Strategies For Creating An Atmosphere Of Problem-Solving In Your Classroom by Paul Moss To remedy the situation, and grow fruitful and happy students within the confines of the syllabus you are...
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What Is Really, Truly ‘Best For The Kids’?
What Is Really, Truly ‘Best For The Kids’? by Terry Heick What’s best for the kids. I remember hearing this phrase when I was handed a towering stack of fluency probes that represented about 3-4 hours...
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Why You Should Be Tagging Your Curriculum
Why You Should Be Tagging Your Curriculum by Terry Heick Ed note: this post has been updated and republished from a previous version You probably should be tagging your curriculum. It’s 2018. It’s...
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Why Learning Innovation Can’t Come From Teachers Alone
Why Learning Innovation Can’t Come From Teachers Alone by Terry Heick A few years ago, the late Grant Wiggins, a learning expert who inspired me since my first year in the classroom, wrote about the...
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3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st Century Student
3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t mean we’re all suddenly omnipotent cyborgs, nor does it mean we’ve...
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The 6 Stages Of A Teaching Career
The 6 Stages Of A Teaching Career by Terry Heick I’ve been thinking about this, and there really is a life cycle to teaching. Not every teacher will experience every stage–or every stage to the same...
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A Checklist For 21st Century Teachers
A Checklist For 21st Century Teachers by TeachThought Staff What are the kind of things a 21st century teacher needs to know and be able to do? What about 21st century students? What education...
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20 Collaborative Learning Tips And Strategies For Teachers
20 Collaborative Learning Tips And Strategies For Teachers by Miriam Clifford This post has been updated from a previous post. There is an age old adage that says “two heads are better than one.”...
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A Better List Of Ideas For Project-Based Learning
A Better List Of Ideas For Project-Based Learning by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’re huge fans of project-based learning. While there is no magic bullet of practice, program, or framework...
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How To Give Students Specific Feedback That Actually Helps Them Learn
How To Give Students Specific Feedback That Actually Helps Them Learn contributed by Justin Chando To tell a student ‘great job’ or ‘this needs work’ is a missed opportunity. Everyone loves to hear...
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100 Things Students Can Create To Demonstrate What They Know
100 Things Students Can Create To Demonstrate What They Know contributed by Ryan Schaaf, Notre Dame of Maryland University This has been updated and republished from a previous version When I was a...
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6 Design Principles Of Connected Learning
The Learning And Design Principles Of Connected Learning by TeachThought Staff No teacher should be hurting for compelling progressive education content. Sites like edutopia, Langwitches, Cult of...
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What Is Confirmation Bias?
Confirmation Bias Really Kills Thinking by Terry Heick What is confirmation bias? Broadly speaking, confirmation bias is the tendency of people to overvalue data that supports their own beliefs. It...
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