When Schools And Parents Don’t Talk
Communities don’t understand teaching and learning? Education doesn’t know what communities really need? This seems like an opportunity.
An Updated Guide To Questioning In The Classroom
This guide to questioning in the classroom views questions as signs of understanding, not ignorance–the ability to see what you’re missing.
50 Learning Reflection Questions For Students
Were you an active or a passive learner? Of what you learned today, what are you most comfortable with and what is still ‘iffy’?
Strategies To Help Students Retain What You Taught Them
By asking students to leave a little learning on a chair by the door on the way out of the classoom, exit slips are an easy way to reflect on learning.
14 Ways To Help Students Build Confidence
‘Believing in students’ isn’t enough–they have to have sufficient knowledge or experience with ideas and skills to ‘do well in school.’
3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student
3 Knowledge Domains For Teaching And Learning by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t mean we’re all suddenly omnipotent cyborgs, nor do we all become mindless social media addicts who spend our cognitive might tapping, swiping, and drooling on our smartphone and tablet screens. But just as the 19th…
A Powerful, One-Sentence Argument For Progressive Learning
by TeachThought Staff Do not limit a child to your own learning, for they were born for another time. R Tagore While each generation is unique, possessing its own challenges, opportunities, and cultural contexts, the methods of teaching and the knowledge passed down often reflect the values and norms of previous eras. This gap between…
On The Danger Of Popular Ideas In Education
New ideas, often in the shape of ‘fads,’ are, at best, distractions. It just might be that education already has more than enough new ideas.
What Is The Future Of Classroom Technology?
In this particular future of classroom technology, there are three distinct domains/learning spaces: Classroom, Studio, and Virtual.
8 Things Students Need In Modern Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning needs in the 21st century include socialization, elegant curation, research, pivot points, and other considerations.
What Role Does Empathy Play In Learning?
The relationship between learning goals & empathy may be unclear. What and why we choose to study are deeply human pursuits.
18 Inconvenient Truths About Assessment Of Learning
It’s an extraordinary amount of work to design precise and personalized assessments that illuminate pathways forward for individual students.
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