Why Brain-Based Learning Means Always Connecting Old Knowledge With New
Connecting old knowledge helps students extend their established, stored memory patterns and categories to incorporate the new insights.
Author: TeachThought Staff
TeachThought’s mission is to promote critical thinking and innovation education.
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8 Ways To Help Students Improve Their Academic Reading
What is ‘academic reading’? And do my students know exactly what to do when they struggle with it both in and outside of the classroom?
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How I Connect Students Through Project-Based Learning
Collaboration and connecting students can occur between students across the globe and does not have to be done synchronously.
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10 Reasons Students Aren’t Using Digital Textbooks
When digital textbooks were introduced, they the wave of the future and experts thought we’d see them become the standard.
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28 Critical Thinking Question Stems For Any Content Area
The purpose of these critical thinking question stems is to help students practice willingness to sit with an idea and struggle wonderfully.
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A Process For Responding To Your Most Challenging Students
The students’ strengths–and your trust–are two tools that can help you form a relationship when working with challenging students.
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CDC: White Female Teen Suicide Rate Triples
1 in 4 females in grades 9-12 considered harming themselves in the last year. The white female teen suicide rate has tripled since 1999.
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New Children’s Book Explores Value Of Mistakes
Every mistake is an chance to make something beautiful. This is the theme of Beautiful Oops!, a journal that teaches the value of mistakes.
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How To Use Flexible Grouping In The Classroom
Having students interact with one or more peers can build community, increase engagement, and make learning more active.
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5 Priorities For Transformative Schools
The current debate over standards is a sign of ignorance. It consumes us, but offers empty calories, not sustenance for a deeper journey
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When Students Break The Rules, Emphasize The Effect On Others
Emphasizing how one student can impact another is not only useful for modifying behavior, but can create a learning community.
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How To Design A Wikipedia Writing & Research Assignment
The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for researching credibility.
