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8 Types Of Imagination by TeachThought Staff Imagination is critical to innovation and learning--but what exactly is it? Dr. Murray Hunter of the University of Malaysia Perlis explains that imagination is, in part, about…

27 Ways To Engage Teachers At Your Next Faculty Meeting by TeachThought Staff Engaging teachers at staff meetings matters. The explanation goes something like this: Teachers work hard. While teachers are professionals and…

30 Storytelling Tips For Teachers: How To Capture Your Students' Attention by TeachThought Staff Storytelling has been around as long as humankind. It is one of the most effective ways to communicate an important truth to…

8 Strategies To Make Learning Visual In Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff & Jackie Gerstein, TeachThought PD Facilitator How about some strategies for visual learning? Though the idea of ‘learning styles’ has fallen out…

How To Cite A Tweet: MLA Style by TeachThought Staff How do you cite a tweet MLA Style? First, let's clarify that while it's not exactly an Oxford library and therefore may not be the first place you visit for scholarly…

20 Observable Characteristics Of Effective Teaching by TeachThought Staff What makes an effective teacher? Or more specifically, what observable characteristics might you see and hear? The University of Minnesota offered some…

How To Add Materials To An Assignment In Google Classroom by TeachThought Staff Adding materials to assignments in Google Classroom is simple--basically navigating to the Assignments page, clicking the paperclip icon, then…

How I Helped My Students Assess Their Own Writing contributed by Peg Grafwallner, M.Ed. As the School Support Teacher/Reading Specialist of a large urban high school, I create, develop, implement and assess lessons with teachers…

How To Play The 'Count To Ten' Team-Building Game by TeachThought Staff If you're looking for an example of an easy to use, fun, and fairly quick/zero-prep team-building game that can be used with a wide range of ages from…

5 Ideal Traits Of A PBL Teacher by Mike Kaechele, TeachThought PD Facilitator The past few years I have worked with many teachers introducing the components of Project-Based Learning (PBL) and helping them design their own…

Introducing Project-Based Learning Workshops By TeachThought by TeachThought Staff Did you know that TeachThought Professional Development offers project-based learning workshops? Project-Based Learning isn't any more complex…

How To Help Students Find More Time To Read by TeachThought Staff How can you find more time to read? Better yet, how can you help students find more time to read? Below, I’ve collected a few strategies. The big idea here is…

10 Reasons Every Teacher Needs A Professional Learning Network by TeachThought Staff What's a professional learning network? According to Marc-André Lalande,  “a Personal Learning Network is a way of describing the group of…

How I Use Video For Assessment In My Classroom contributed by Steve Wheeler, Learning Innovations Consultant I have always believed that assessment should be primarily for the benefit of the student, not the teacher. I concede…

Five Simple Strategies That Can Help Any Student Learn contributed by Drs. Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers Empowered with some basic information about how the mind and brain work during learning, teachers can plan to use some new…

Stop Praising Student Work. Be Specific Instead. contributed by Paul Moss We all know that time demands on teachers seem to be ever-growing. Sometimes I feel I must be working in dog years, so any way to reduce the burden is worth…

How To Search For Tweets By Date by TeachThought Staff How do you search for tweets by date? It's not exactly a seamless process--twitter's search process has never been its strong suit, and how to filter tweets by date isn't…

10 Ways To Use ReadWorks In The Classroom by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we've been using ReadWorks recently to grow literacy skills of readers from elementary school to high school. There are several features that make…

7 Easy Ways To Assess Without Testing contributed by Steve Wheeler, Learning Innovations Consultant Children don't learn any more or any better because of standardized testing unless there is feedback on how they can improve.…

20 Tips To Promote A Self-Directed Classroom Culture contributed by opencolleges.edu It’s an age-old sayin: "Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.” What separates good…

Learning Is Complex; What Do We Know So Far? contributed by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon The science of learning, discovering how people learn, as opposed to the philosophy of learning and education that goes back to Egyptian…

12 Back To School Teaching Resources For The Best Year Ever by TeachThought Staff What are the best back to school teaching resources for 2019? Well, it will take us another 12 months to establish that, but we thought we'd get a…

 Does This Help You Relax? 12 Of The Best ASMR Videos With No Talking by Terry Heick After years of not being able to focus (or sleep) without background noise of some kind (which led me to create a TeachThought-specific…

7 Ways To Improve Parental Involvement In The Classroom  contributed by Paul Moss There are so many studies describing the importance and significance of getting parents on board in a child’s learning that I needn’t even cite any,…