A Student-Led, Flipped, Inquiry-Based Learning Classroom
Teachers need to feel competent and comfortable being a guide at each step of flipped, inquiry-based learning.
Author: TeachThought Staff
TeachThought’s mission is to promote critical thinking and innovation education.
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Company Creates Video Pen Pal Technology, Seeks Teacher Support
by Saksham Khosla, LumenEd Across the world, there is a widespread demand for young people to address major issues of global significance through cross-cultural cooperation. While American schools are attempting to keep up with this demand, true global competency cannot be achieved through international exchange programs that less than 1% of young people participate in. In the…
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Introducing The TeachThought ‘Diverse Teacher Voices’ Program
Introducing The TeachThought ‘Diverse Teacher Voices‘ Program by TeachThought Staff The ‘Diverse Teacher Voices’ Program is something we think has a chance to be pretty awesome, if we can just convince teachers to take ownership of it and go. The goal of this (experimental, let’s-see-how-it-goes) program is to help diverse teacher voices share their ideas, experience,…
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The Benefits Of Learning Through Field Trips
The Benefits Of Learning Through Field Trips contributed by Steve Berer, musexplore.net If you are going on a field trip, it is important to prepare your students by developing their visual literacy, and by integrating the trip actively into your curriculum. However, important as that is, it is not enough. The museum (and field trip) experience occurs…
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18 Simple Ways To Make Your iPad Faster
18 Simple Ways To Make Your iPad Faster by TeachThought Staff You bought your iPad new three years ago, and now it’s getting a bit long in the tooth. Opening apps can take forever. Sometimes they crash, stop responding, or won’t open to begin with. If you want to extend the life of your little glass…
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The Physiology Of Bullying
Acetaminophen Reduces Social Pain? The Physiology Of Bullying by David Palank, Principal at San Miguel School in Washington D.C. Study Abstract Summary Pain, whether caused by physical injury or social rejection, is an inevitable part of life. These two types of pain-physical and social-may rely on some of the same behavioral and neural mechanisms that register pain-related affect….
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What Technology Does What: An #edtech Chart For Teachers
What technology does what? This edtech chart collects examples of edtech tools in a range of categories for teaching and learning.
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Misunderstanding The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Framework
Assess the extent to which students, unprompted, use the strategies when reading new text before ‘releasing responsibility.’
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Why Students Don’t Always Transfer What They Seem To Understand
Conditional knowledge includes knowing when and why to apply various actions. This is crucial to the ongoing transfer of learning.
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Introducing Encyclopedia Britannica Noet Edition: A Researcher’s Best Friend
Encyclopedia Britannica Noet Edition combines one of the world’s most trusted sources of information with primary sources and research tools.
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Research-Based? When A Lab Is Not A Classroom
Laboratory neuroscience research cannot be proof of what will happen in a classroom or with any one student.
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44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work
Real world work will be more engaging to students because it has more chance for credibility in their eyes, and usefulness in their lives.
