What Teachers Want To Hear: 12 Examples by Terry Heick “Ohhh, now I get it.” The iconic phrase that teachers value hearing. A sign that you’ve moved a student from not understanding to understanding. Into the light….
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10 Iconic Teacher Actions That Technology Should Disrupt
10 Iconic Teacher Actions That Technology Should Disrupt by Terry Heick A little bit of technology doesn’t change much. Can make things a little easier by automating them. It could make a lesson here or…
Creating A Culture Of Learning Using The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Model
Promoting A Culture Of Learning In Your Classroom by Terry Heick Learning is a culture. It starts there—with the students first as human beings needing to understand their environment. And it ends there—with students using…
The Quickly Narrowing Gap Between Formal & Informal Learning
The Quickly Narrowing Gap Between Formal & Informal Learning by Terry Heick Reading recently through Edutopia’s resources on informal learning, the distinction between formal and informal learning resonated more strongly now than ever. As a…
The Wisdom Of Patient Teaching
The Wisdom Of Patient Teaching by Terry Heick The gift of my fifth year of teaching was patience. Every year something new occurs to me as an educator, and for year five it was the…
What Can Education Learn From Learnist?
What Can Education Learn From Learnist? by Terry Heick Full disclosure–in the past, TeachThought has had a business relationship with Learnist in that we helped create educational content for them. That is, content centered around…
How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process
How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process by Terry Heick Gamification is simply the application of “game” mechanics to non-game entities. The big idea here is to encourage a desired behavior. In this way, “gamification”…
The Two Minds Of A Teacher
Becoming A “Whole Teacher” By Joining The Two Minds Of Educators by Terry Heick In his essay Two Minds, Wendell Berry, unsurprisingly enough, offers up two tones of thought produced by two kinds of “mind”—Rational,…
This Is The World Teachers Must Adapt To
This Is The World Teachers Must Adapt To: 7 Ways Teaching Has Changed by Terry Heick Teachers are the arbitrators of knowledge and culture. Knowledge and culture are each dynamic, endlessly crashing and churning. This…
6 Channels Of 21st Century Learning
6 Channels Of 21st Century Learning This post has been updated from a 2013 post by Terry Heick At TeachThought, we constantly wrestle with two big questions: How do people learn, and how can they…
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