32 Habits That Make Thinkers
These 32 habits that make thinkers can lead to that critical shift that moves students from mere students to learners who think critically.
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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What Is CPTSD? My Experience
CPTSD is a complex, often debilitating response caused by events over a period of time–anywhere from months to an entire childhood.
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How To Learn Through Play: A Spectrum For Teachers
From genius hour to scripted curriculum, this model acts as a framework to illustrate how to teach through play.
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Minecraft in Education: What Teachers Can Learn From Minecraft
Minecraft in Education: What Minecraft Can Teach You About Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff Minecraft is a simple, clumsy-looking little game full of blocky graphics and unclear terms of play. It is essentially a giant sandbox of digital legos that players can do with what they wish–tear stuff down, dig holes, or build dizzying towers of…
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The Challenges Of Data-Based Teaching
How can you use data to improve your teaching? If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind.
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Why Your Students Aren’t Learning: 10 Performance Disruptors
Poor responses to data or simply not having enough time to plan are two possible reasons your students are struggling.
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What Every Teacher Needs
While schools should center children in purpose, tone, structure, function, etc., what about teachers? What do they need?
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Dear Parents: Here’s What You Should Know About Letter Grades
Letter grades don’t mean what you think they mean. In fact, they can fail to communicate important truths about your child’s learning.
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How To Help Students Learn From Anything
What/who is the most compelling, ongoing catalyst for helping students learn in your classroom? If it’s the teacher, you’re in trouble.
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The Problem With Predicting The Future Education
With considerable trepidation, I commonly write about the future of education–the future of the classroom, the future role of the teacher, the role of robots (and whether or not robots can replace teachers), and AI and new models accommodate these technologies, such as Combination Learning, Self-Directed learning, and the Sync Learning Model, among others. What…
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In Defense Of Absolute Literacy
We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the world as we know it.
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Learning Profiles: What Great Teachers Know About Their Students
Most learning profiles are quick glances of academic data. There’s nothing wrong with this. They are useful, but they are also limited.
