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6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom's Taxonomy by TeachThought Staff Bloom's Taxonomy can be a powerful tool to transform teaching and learning. By design, it focuses attention away from content and instruction, and instead…

Stop Saying Learning Styles Don't Work by Terry Heick Two myths I continue to see more and more of over the last couple of years involve learning styles and Depth of Knowledge frameworks. The growing consensus seems to be that…

The Definition Of Digital Citizenship by Terry Heick This post was originally published in 2013 and was updated in December of 2018 As more and more students interact digitally--with content, one another, and various…

12 Alternatives To Letter Grades In Education by Terry Heick Ed note: This post was originally published in November of 2012 and has been updated several times, most recently in December of 2018 with updated links, language, and…

Discussion: What Are Teachers Responsible For? by TeachThought Staff The processes of teaching and learning are an ongoing negotiation between teacher, student, and content. As a culture, we are in the habit of creating…

12 Curriculum Planning Tips For Any Grade Level Or Content Area by Terry Heick Learning is really just a growth in awareness. From not knowing to knowing is part of it, but that’s really too simple because it misses all the degrees of…

5 Levels Of Student Engagement: A Continuum For Teaching by Terry Heick Years ago, I worked with a school in Kentucky that had adopted Phil Shlechty's "Working on the Work" framework. The idea behind Shlechty's framework is, in…

Discussion: What Are Students Responsible For? by Terry Heick What are you doing to engage the students? How are you making sure they pay attention? What are you doing to make them care? How are you sparking their curiosity?…

Discuss: 'In Finland, teachers are not inspected' by Terry Heick Non-negotiable. Out of all of my experiences as a classroom teacher in ‘struggling’ American K-12 schools, the term ‘non-negotiable’ sticks with me the most. On…

Data-Driven Teaching? The Unit Isn't Doing You Any Favors by Terry Heick It’s been a great run. We’ve had some great times, and done some cool things we’ll never forget. Like that time in the summer PD where all the department…

10 Pieces Of Advice That Could Save Your Teaching Career by Terry Heick Simple premise, as titled: what sorts of 'things' make teaching unsustainable, and what sort of advice can help teachers reflect on these ideas to mitigate…

Augmented And Virtual Reality: An Incredible List Of Over 900 Google Expeditions by TeachThought Staff Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are two tools that, for whatever reason, don't seem to generate the kind of buzz they…

12 Things That Will Disappear From Classrooms In The Next 12 Years by Terry Heick The classroom is changing because the world is changing. That may not be as true as we'd like it to be--the pace of the change in education lags…

60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves by Terry Heick Motivating and engaging students is the goal of most teachers--priming them to receive instruction, or otherwise align themselves to a pre-set process you've sketched…

What Happens When Teachers Connect by Terry Heick Digital and social media have replaced the landscape for education. This isn't a case of mere impact or transformation--it's all different now. Everything--the tools, the audiences,…

How To Google Search By Date by Terry Heick The internet has a big problem. Well, it has a lot of problems because people have problems and people use and construct, participate in and otherwise realize the architecture of the…

20 Things You Can Learn In 10 Minutes To Become A Better Teacher by Terry Heick Becoming a better teacher is likely a big part of why you're here. Based on reader feedback, surveys, comments, and other observations we've…

How To Get Fired As A Teacher by Terry Heick Getting fired in any profession can be tricky. Maybe you want a career change, but need a push in that direction. Or maybe you want to stay at home with the kids and be a 'stay at…