27 Simple Ways To Check For Understanding
What Are Simple Ways To Check For Understanding? Whether you’re using formative assessment for data to personalize learning within a unit, or more summative data to refine a curriculum map, the ability to quickly and easily check for understanding is…
A Giant List Of Really Good Essential Questions
A Giant List Of Really Good Essential Questions by Terry Heick Essential questions are, as Grant Wiggins defined, ‘essential’ in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries.” These are grapple-worthy, substantive questions that not only require wrestling with,…
Why Virtual Reality Is So Important For Education
Virtual Reality Is Important For Education by Terry Heick What is virtual reality? You probably have a pretty good sense of what it is even if you’ve never actually experienced it. Virtual = replicated (often digitally); artificial Reality = What…
Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book by Terry Heick You can’t watch a video like you read a book; the modalities couldn’t be more different. On the surface level a video uses light, color, sound, and…
From Explaining To Surviving: 27 Things Teachers Are Good At
From Explaining To Surviving: 27 Things Teachers Are Good At by TeachThought Staff What’s a teacher? What kinds of things should a 21st century be able to do? How about with an iPad? What’s the purpose of school? These are the…
50 Alternatives To Lecturing In The Classroom
What Are The Best Alternatives To Lecture In Teaching? by TeachThought Staff As teachers, when we lecture, we have the best of intentions. We have a concept we want the class to understand, so we stand and explain it to…
30 Lessons For Teachers From Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss Gives Teachers These 30 Lessons by TeachThought Staff Dr. Seuss is gold–whimsical and visually interesting traipses through surreal worlds, and always full of life advice. And life advice is learning advice, and learning advice–well, that’s why we’re all…