Reading Response Questions That Work With Most Texts
Students needed to see what a ‘quality’ reading response looked like. Once these questions were demystified a bit, it was all downhill.
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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4 Stages Of Edtech Integration From A Student Perspective
Mobile technology erodes the traditional classroom. Truly ‘mobile’ learners should disrupt non-flexible curriculum.
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What Is The Purpose Of School?
How much of your intelligence, your affection, your skill, and your pride is employed in your work? What are its ecological and social costs?
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Why You Should Be Tagging Your Curriculum
Why should you tag your curriculum? Because it makes it easier to skim, search, analyze, evaluate, and use what you use to teach.
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What Is Really, Truly ‘Best For The Kids’?
What Is Really, Truly ‘Best For The Kids’? by Terry Heick What’s best for the kids. I remember hearing this phrase when I was handed a towering stack of fluency probes that represented about 3-4 hours of “in addition to” work per week. I wasn’t against the idea behind it all (supporting the literacy of…
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13 Standards For A Near-Future School
Artificial Intelligence will be a core part of learning, helping students choose books, assessment forms, learning strategies, and more.
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Why You Should Care That Kendrick Lamar Just Won A Pulitzer Prize
Kendrick Lamar winning the Pulitzer Prize in music is important because of context: race continues to be a wound on the American landscape.
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Learning Is Different Than Education
Learning is different than education. Learning is driven by curiosity, self-directed & supported; the other is metered, led & caused.
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What English Sounds Like To Non-English Speakers
When someone hears a language they’re not familiar, it sounds–well, weird. This is what English sounds like to non-English speakers.
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How To Make Your Classroom Work More Like YouTube
Whatever mechanisms YouTube uses to deploy content works. What might happen if education experimented with some of the lessons YouTube’s in the classroom?
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8 Reflective Questions To Help Any Student Think About Their Learning
What’s the most important thing you learned today? Why do you think so? What can or should a person do with what they know?
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The Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment
In a highly effective learning environment, there are opportunities for students to revisit old thinking while grappling with new ideas.
