What Is The Identity Of Your Classroom?
What Do Students Think Of Your Class? by Terry Heick Google is the company that has become its own verb. Google it. They’re also challenging Apple with their Android mobile operating system (though to...
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18 Inconvenient Truths About Assessment by Terry Heick For in-person professional development from TeachThought on effective assessment (or any other topic your school or district might need), contact...
View ArticleAn Efficient Classroom: 6 Factors Of Academic Achievement
6 Factors Of Academic Achievement To Guide Your Teaching by Terry Heick What are the factors of academic achievement? First, a definition for academics in the classroom. An academic classroom is one...
View ArticleModern Trends In Education: 50 Different Approaches To Learning
Modern Trends In Education: 50 Different Approaches To Learning contributed by Lisa Chesser, opencolleges.edu.au This post has been updated, slightly revised, and republished from a previous posting...
View Article60 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...
View Article7 Skills Students Will Always Need
7 Skills Students Will Always Need by Jennifer Rita Nichols Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post. As educators, we constantly strive to prepare our students for the ‘real world’ that...
View ArticleTeaching Is Establishing The Need To Know
Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know by Terry Heick Ed note: This has been updated from a 2014 post by the author The above image comes from a presentation from Jesse Stommel , an Assistant...
View Article44 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking With Bloom’s Taxonomy
44 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking With Bloom’s Taxonomy contributed by Peter Pappas My interest in reflective thinking is rooted in a simple but powerful statement by Donald Finkel who wrote that...
View ArticleStop, Practice, Collaborate: The Cycle Of Reflective Teaching
Stop, Practice, Collaborate: The Cycle Of Reflective Teaching contributed by Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral This post has been updated and republished The more reflective you are, the more effective you...
View ArticleHow The Memory Works In Learning
How The Memory Works In Learning contributed by Dr. Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed. Teachers are the caretakers of the development of students’ highest brain during the years of its most extensive changes. As...
View Article10 Ways Traditional Classrooms Punish Mistakes In Learning
contributed by Miriam Clifford The greatest mistake I ever made in my education was failing a physics course at Cornell. I opted to take an auto-tutorial class that did not require calculus because I...
View Article12 Tips For Students To Manage Their Digital Footprints
12 Tips For Students To Manage Their Digital Footprints contributed by Justin Boyle If you’ve scratched your head over suggestions to manage your ‘digital footprint,’ you aren’t the only one. A...
View ArticleBecoming Invisible In My Classroom
Becoming Invisible In My Classroom contributed by Jane Healey “She doesn’t do anything. She gets paid to babysit us while we do all the work.” I overheard the middle school students in the...
View ArticleUpdating Your Teaching To Something Messier
Updating Your Teaching To Something Messier by Mike Fisher Recently, I participated in a Twitter chat for the ASCD Leader to Leader initiative, hashtag #ASCDL2L, on the role of the modern teacher. As...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Innovation-Led Evidence And Evidence-Led Innovation
The Difference Between Innovation-Led Evidence And Evidence-Led Innovation by Conrad Wolfram, Computer-Based Math Ed note: This post has been republished from previous posting. Recently, I was part of...
View Article15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching
15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching by Terry Heick 15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching–And 15 That Are Not So Much Student-centered teaching is simply the process of teaching with student...
View Article20 Standards For Digital Citizenship
Standards For Digital Citizenship In Graphic Form by TeachThought Staff You’ve read a lot about digital citizenship over the years. Have you seen any useable standards for students? While not perfect,...
View Article5 Strategies For Incorporating Social Emotional Learning Into Your Classroom
5 Strategies For Incorporating Social Emotional Learning Into Your Classroom contributed by Meg Price, the ei experience Social emotional learning (SEL) by definition is a process for learning life...
View Article5 Problems With Technology In Classrooms
5 Problems With Technology In Classrooms by TeachThought Staff The main argument for technology in the classroom is that emerging students should be able to apply classroom concepts to daily life, and...
View Article7 New Features Added To Google Classroom
Google Announces New Features In Google Classroom by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, while we love Apple’s products, app ecology, and general aesthetic, we tend towards recommending Google for most...
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