Terry Heick

Why Parents Don't Understand How To Help by Terry Heick Jargon is a necessary evil. Simply put, jargon helps us be more specific. Pilots in planes don’t 'go up,' they 'gain altitude.' Forwards in basketball don’t simply…

 This Is One Of The Best Games To Teach Social Studies by Terry Heick Title: Civilization VI Platforms iPad Microsoft Windows Steam (The Windows version/Amazon link is an affiliate link--read more here, but the…

Revisiting 25 Predictions I Made About The Future Of Education by Terry Heick Originally published Dec 22, 2012  Preface: I talk a lot about the future of learning, and sometimes it's fun to go back and look to see how off I…

What Does 'Critical Thinking' Mean? by Terry Heick This post has been updated from a 2014 post What does 'critical thinking' mean? Well, that depends on who you ask. For educators, as a term critical thinking is similar to…

30 Universal Strategies For Learning by Terry Heick As teachers, we're all trying to better understand how people learn--not now they're taught in terms of teaching strategies, but more so learning strategies--only not really…

The Perfect Test: 32 Characteristics Of Quality Assessment by Terry Heick Nothing is perfect, but we can dream. So let's dream about assessment. What Is An Assessment? First, what is an assessment? A measurement? A…

John Dewey: 'We must prepare our students...for their world.' by Terry Heick "The world is moving at a tremendous rate. No one knows where. We must prepare our children not for the world of the past, not for our world, but for their…

The Learning And Design Principles Of Connected Learning by TeachThought Staff No teacher should be hurting for compelling progressive education content. Sites like edutopia, Langwitches, Cult of Pedagogy, and dozens of others…

As Knowledge Demands Change, Curriculum Must Change, Too by Terry Heick Increasingly, the idea of computer coding is coming up in discussions about the classroom. This usually happens in the context of ‘21st-century learning,’…

10 Ways Teaching Has Changed In The Last 10 Years by Terry Heick Teachers are the arbitrators of knowledge and culture. Knowledge and culture are each dynamic, endlessly crashing and churning. This makes teaching significantly…

How To Create Learning Playlists In A Textbook World by Terry Heick The idea of playlists became popular with the explosion of iTunes and YouTube in the last decade. Before music became digital, it was bound by its physical…

Are You Creating Confident Students? by Terry Heick One approach to great teaching is facilitation: decentering yourself. Standing to the side, out of the students' way, and moving to more of a facilitative role of teaching. And…

Creating Student-Centered Learning Profiles: What Great Teachers Know About Their Students by TeachThought Staff For Professional Development or consulting around this or other ideas you read about on TeachThought, contact us.…

How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process by Terry Heick Gamification is simply the application of game-like mechanics to non-game 'things.' The big idea here is to encourage a desired behavior. In this way,…

 How To Deal With A Difficult Parent by Terry Heick You'd heard about this parent from other teachers. That this parent was a handful. Rude. Combative. Aggressive. Even litigious. In response, you worry, if just a little. You…

The Power Of Place: How Where Students Live Affects What They Need To Know by Terry Heick A decent question: Why don't your students remember what you've taught? A better question: Why don't they understand what you've taught?…

What It Means To 'Teach' by Terry Heick What does it mean to "teach"? I've been meaning to write this post for weeks, but a dozen side projects have kept me from doing so. It started out as an actual academic definition, but…

50 Questions Every Student Should Be Able To Answer Before They Graduate High School by Terry Heick For professional development on ideas like this--or PBL, inquiry, assessment, literacy, and pretty much anything else related to…

The Simplest Way To Slow The Summer Slide by Terry Heick There's a lot of dialogue right now about the dreaded summer slide. Lots of scary statistics, technology layers, and socioeconomic concerns. Tips, resources, ideas, and…

20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching This Year So Next Year Is Better by Terry Heick I don't know how your school year is going and/or 'went' (depending on when you're reading this). Maybe it was amazing. Maybe you think it…

30 Examples Of Disruption In Your Classroom by Terry Heick This post has been republished from a previous version and is actually intended to supplement the "Cycle of Learning Innovation," which means this is less about analysis and…

The 6 Stages Of A Teaching Career by Terry Heick I've been thinking about this, and there really is a life cycle to teaching. Not every teacher will experience every stage--or every stage to the same degrees, anyway. Some may…

The Difference Between Children And Students Recently I wrote for edutopia on the difference between students and learners. As "learning trends" become the basis for full-on institutions of learning (see the Avenues: World School …

3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn't mean we're all suddenly omnipotent cyborgs, nor does it mean we've all become mindless social media…