12 Strategies For Teaching Literature In The 21st-Century
From affording choice to anchoring year-long discussion of certain themes, here are strategies for teaching literature in the 21st century.
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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Generation Screen: What Social Media Has Done To Children
For some in ‘Generation Screen,’ things that are ‘viral’ can be seen as preferable to things that affect and endure.
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The Difference Between Instructivism, Constructivism, & Connectivism
Connectivism is similar to constructivism. The difference lies in networks; rather than supplemental, they are primary sources.
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What Works In Education And How Do We Know?
What works in education and how do we know? What do we know an idea is ‘good’? Letter grades? Test performance? Graduation Rates?
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Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’ With Harvard Poetry Professor
Nas explores ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell,’ a track of ranging similes and metaphors with a pace that required 50+ plays before you could begin to appreciate it,
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10 Collaboration Tips For 21st Century Teachers
From The Classroom To Your PLN: 10 Collaboration Tips For 21st Century Teachers by Terry Heick Summer is a make-it-or-break-it time for educators. The non-stop, brutal schedule that is a school year starts with all the finesse of trampling elephants, and doesn’t relent for the next nine months (not coincidentally, the same amount of time…
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‘The Wire’ Crushed Public Education And We Weren’t Paying Attention
When your day to day existence is in question, major cultural systems are failing and public education, as a system, has to be near the top of that list.
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When School Is Nothing Like The World Students Live In
School Is Nothing Like The World Students Live In In 2020, the distinction between formal and informal learning is more crucial than ever. As a classroom teacher, this difference is an important distinction. Formal learning happens through strategic planning of learning experiences, often direct instruction from teachers. Teacher and school improvement is driven by the…
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How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder
How Students Organize Their Language Arts Binders by Terry Heick For many humanities teachers, how you have students organize their class binders–or if you have them keep one at all–says a lot about how you view that content area. Like an architect’s drawing table or a painter’s palette, for a teacher of any humanities course–especially…
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Stop Chasing Students And Lead Them Instead
Learning trends aren’t about preparation, but mitigation. We need to stop chasing students and start leading them, instead.
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The Highest Result Of Education Is A Kind Of Tolerance
The full measure of education may be the ability not simply to tolerate, but accept their own limits, and the limits of those around them.
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Education Is A System; Teaching Is An Action; Learning Is A Process
It’s ‘natural’ that there have always have been haves and have nots. Should a system of education work like nature?
