What It Means To Teach
What does it mean to be a teacher? We start out with the function of a teacher, and then begin to mix in ‘all the rest.’
Author: Terry Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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Students Should Be Able To Answer 50 Questions Before Graduation
When should I lead and when should I follow? When should I talk and when should I listen–and what is the role of each in understanding?
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20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching
How can you reflect on your teaching to grow each semester/year? To make teaching easier? Better? More powerful? More fun? More efficient?
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30 Examples Of Disruption In Your Classroom
Examples of disruption in education range from the demand for eLearning to the soaring cost of college to adaptive learning technology.
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The 6 Stages Of A Teaching Career
We’re diving into the 6 stages of a teaching career: pride, survival, experimentation, disillusionment, rebellion, & ongoing mastery.
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Why Learning Innovation Can’t Come From Teachers Alone
Learning Innovation Can’t Come From Teachers Alone by Terry Heick A few years ago, the late Grant Wiggins, a learning expert who inspired me since my first year in the classroom, wrote about the intersection of academic standards and creativity. “Why do people insist on viewing the Standards as inconsistent with teacher creativity and choice?…
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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.
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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.
