How To Never Run Out Of New Ideas As A Teacher
Just like a great teacher can teach anything, a great learner can learn from almost anything–and teachers are first learners.
Year: 2018
Getting To Know Students Starts With Asking The Right Questions
Want To Get To Know Your Students? Ask The Right Questions. contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Teacher It’s back to school time! Whether you’ve been teaching for two minutes or twenty years, this is a critical time of year. You meet your students. They stare you down. Not averages stare–the types of stares kids go home…
The Recent History Of The Neuroscience Of Learning: A Brief Overview
Advances in neuroscience & the capacity to investigate the functioning of the brain have really enabled us to see what happens when we learn.
12 Of The Best ASMR Videos With No Talking
ASMR is “Autonomous Soothing Meridian Response,’ and means being soothed by sounds and textures not generally considered soothing.
7 Ways To Improve Parental Involvement In The Classroom
Everyone agrees that parental involvement in student learning is important, and in fact a key factor in their success.
16 Things I Want To Hear My Students Say
“Ohhh, I get it.” The iconic phrase that teachers value hearing. A sign you’ve moved a student. Something you want to hear your students say.
Why Parents Don’t Understand How To Help
Families and communities often only recognize the bits and pieces of education they’ve seen before–letter grades, essays, book reports, and report cards.
5 Ways To Engage Reluctant Learners
While there are no magic bullets, certain principles & strategies can harness the intrinsic motivation that lies at the heart of each learner.
A Video Walkthrough For Civilization VI Beginners
At TeachThought, we love learning through video games, and Civilization VI is one of our favorite games to learn with and through.
This Is One Of The Best Games To Teach Social Studies
We’re blown away by Civilization VI’s complexity, scale, and potential as a tool for teaching social studies.
Revisiting 25 Predictions I Made About The Future Of Education
25 Predictions I Made About The Future Of Education by Terry Heick Originally published Dec 22, 2012 Preface: I talk a lot about the future of learning, and sometimes it’s fun to go back and look to see how off I was about some things while getting lucky and being a little less wrong about…
Clarifying Your Teaching With Clear Communication
Clarifying Your Teaching With Clear Communication contributed by Molly Bruzewski, Ed.S. Ed note: This is part 2 on strategies that promote a team approach to academic achievement and high-performance teaching. Part 1 was Every Classroom Is A Team And Every Teacher Is A Coach. Strategies 2 and 3 appear below. In the same way that students appreciate…
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