Moving Up? 4 Tips For Managing Your Career As A Teacher
Here are some of the best insights for educators hoping to advance their career, whether in their current district or by relocating.
Author: TeachThought Staff
TeachThought’s mission is to promote critical thinking and innovation education.
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5 Mistakes I Made As A New Teacher
Some of the mistakes I made as a new teacher involved taking everything personally and being afraid to make mistakes in the first place!
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Lesson Example: Helping Students Respond To Art In A Museum
Helping Students Respond To Art In A Museum by Steve Berer, musexplore.net In this article, I will present a project to challenge your students to creatively respond to art objects that they find particularly engaging or mysterious. Their task is to try to see those works of art accurately and to develop a relationship with…
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25 Resources For Teaching With Movies And Film
The film section of Tuppence Magazine has put together a list of the 25 best learning resources for film studies available online.
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Making Your Classroom More Like A Playground
Making Your Classroom Work More Like A Playground by TeachThought Staff Should classrooms be more like playgrounds? The playground is a place of whimsy, creativity, cognitive “ease,” and social interaction. It’s accessible, open, and fun. There may be some room for this type of thinking in a classroom, yes? Embedded in this thinking are a lot of the ideas…
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Creating A Fire For Inquiry Starts At The Beginning
If You Want To Create A Fire For Inquiry, Start At The Beginning by Brian Cleary, oldbrainteacher.com If science is inquiry and inquiry is a fire, when does that fire start? When the world talks about STEM education for the most part they talk around elementary teachers rather than to elementary school teachers. This should not…
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The Challenge Of Personalizing Learning In Real-Time
Using real time performance information for planning and monitoring leads to the best alignment of student personalized learning.
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There’s Value In A Non-Traditional Path To College
There’s Value In A Non-Traditional Path To College by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Teacher & Holder of Student Loan Debt It’s that time of year again–college time. You go to the mailbox. It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for your whole life. The one that parents and teachers tell you will determine the course of your very…
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Creating Curriculum For Present-Day Learners
by Sandra L. Love, Ed.D. The content of this article has been adjusted per the author’s original submission to clarify any confusion that might arise. In today’s classroom, we have moved beyond teaching reading, writing and mathematics through rote memorization. We must push students to dig deeper and ask clear, thoughtful questions so they build the…
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33 Graphic Design Tools To Publish Visual Content
33 Graphic Design Tools To Publish Visual Content by TeachThought Staff Digital literacy is, in part, about digital publishing. Digital publishing is, in part, about the writing process–choosing an audience and purpose, drafting content, revising and editing that content, and then sharing it with the world. But digital publishing is also about the right tools…
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7 Ways School Leaders Can Use Observations More Effectively
How Can School Leaders Can Use Observations More Effectively? by Paul Moss Whilst observations are certainly not the whole picture of a teacher’s skill, they can provide excellent opportunities for teachers to reflect on their practice. If my last article How Your Teacher Observation Can Help You Grow convinced teachers of the benefits of observations,…
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High School History Teachers Lecture Too Much
High School History Teachers Lecture Too Much by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Occasionally, we are going to go back and re-share his most memorable…
