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.
Author: Terry Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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What Is An Essential Question?
What Is An Essential Question? by TeachThought Staff Essential Questions are thought-provoking and open-ended questions that serve as the core of a lesson or unit in a curriculum. Well-written, they should promote inquiry and critical thinking, inquiry, and a deeper understanding of a topic. Essential Questions often do not have a single correct answer and…
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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…
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Are You Teaching Content Or Teaching Thought?
If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.
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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.
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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.
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Start With You: How To Make Good Teaching More Sustainable
If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.
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14 Effective Teaching Strategies For Inquiry-Based Learning
One obvious way to promote inquiry learning in your classroom is to design lessons and units that benefit from, promote, or require it.
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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.
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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.
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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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Classroom Of The Future: Shifts To Move Tomorrow’s Learning To Today
Shifts to create the classroom of the future include a shift from academic standards to learning networks and single modalities to blended.
