15 Of The Best Apps For Improved Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is a matter of decoding, reading speed, and thinking about the text, all of which can improve with tiered practice.
Author: TeachThought Staff
TeachThought’s mission is to promote critical thinking and innovation education.
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4 Reasons That Technology Might Not Be Helping Them Learn
The problem may not be how you’re using the technology but rather how you’re limiting students in their use of the technology.
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What Is Competency-Based Learning?
Competency-based learning is an approach to education that focuses on the student’s demonstration of desired learning outcomes.
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Maybe Testing Isn’t The Problem After All
Maybe Testing Isn’t The Problem After All by Jessica Moore, 5th Grade Teacher After four years and hundreds of millions of federal Race to the Top dollars spent creating the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test—an assessment of the extent to which students are mastering the knowledge and skills necessary…
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Dear Teachers, Today Is An Opportunity
Here’s a quick thought for you: Today is an opportunity. Today is your chance. Not some day generally or metaphorically. Today.
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Teaching Math Without Words
This TED Talk by Matthew Peterson seeks to explore what it would look like to teach math without using words.
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50 Ideas And Resources For More Visual Learning
How we experience sensory data has an effect on how we understand that information and visual learning is a part of that.
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Cultural Exchange Program Seeks Young Adults In 2016
24 global students will be selected to participate in IOU Respect, a program dedicated to exploring one another’s cultures & worldviews.
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Building A Thinking Classroom Without Technology
The onus isn’t on school budgets or clever technology but rather ourselves–our collective ability to forge truly thinking classrooms.
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40 Flipped Classroom Tools For Teachers And Students
What Are The Best Flipped Classroom Tools For Teachers And Students? by TeachThought Staff The flipped classroom has continued to enjoy momentum years after its introduction, speaking to its flexible nature, and to the need for a real change in thinking in how we think of time and space in education. Technology has been, more…
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9 Ground Rules For Great Principals
The following graphic from weareteachers.org takes a more general approach, but provides 9 clear tips–‘ground rules’–for great principals.
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New App Helps Students Learn To Avoid Non-Consensual Sex
The YES to SEX app helps students avoid non-consensual sex by requiring partners to digitally agree to consent and protection in <25 seconds.
