What Does “College Ready” Really Mean, Anyway? by Terry Heick Yesterday, I was talking to my 14 year old daughter yesterday about the kinds of skills that translate to academic success. I also actually used the sterile phrase “academic success.” This was an important distinction, as she’s home-schooled (another term I dislike) and learns through…
#Iwishmyteacherknew Examples Revealing All Around by TeachThought Staff Kyle Schwartz teaches third grade at Doull Elementary in Colorado. By now, you’ve likely heard of her–or at least one of her ideas, #Iwishmyteacherknew. Every now and then, there’s an “Education” story that the masses take notice of–standardized testing, Michelle Rhee, Waiting for Superman, the flipped classroom, the…
Wendell Berry laments his “lack of simple things” in ‘The Want of Peace,’ asking about our collective trade–“selling the world to buy fire.”
We increasingly need the humanities because technology requires us to know what information we need and the kinds of questions we should ask.
Tennessee By Arrested Development (Hip-Hop University) by TeachThought Staff Hip-Hop University: Tennessee By Arrested Development Lyrics Lord I’ve really been real stressedDown and out, losin’ groundAlthough I am black and proudProblems got me pessimistic Brothers and sisters keep messin’ upWhy does it have to be so damn tough?I don’t know where I can goTo let…
There’s something about teaching that makes you cry. Joy. Feeling overwhelmed. Breakthroughs. Failures. There’s a lot going on in any moment.
25 Random Thoughts About Teaching & Learning by Terry Heick The picture? It’s Spring, and I missed the sun. On to the random thoughts… That #makered is as much a tone as it is a trend. Every school and district needs a “Chief Change Officer.” That “screen time” may be an under-studied phenomenon worthy of…
The real problem with multiple-choice questions isn’t assessment design as much as it is function and tone–and these things matter.
An example of ‘failing forward’: “Your first two drafts didn’t work so well, huh? What can you take from each of them–what’s salvageable?”
Teachers are the great translators of learning–mediators that speak in binary code for the system and in human tongue for the children.
Teaching African American students starts with you. Through critical and parallel inquiry, you can help African American students find their own answers.
BYOD (bring your own device) provides students not just with a device, but apps–and thus pathways–to solve problems.
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