Teaching

5 Innovative Tools For Data-Based Teaching by Justin Mann, Geddit.com Teachers have always had their bag of tricks when it comes to understanding how students are doing in class. Good teachers can spot the clues that point to a…

Other Data: 20 Signs You’re Actually Making A Difference As A Teacher by Saga Briggs, opencolleges.edu.au You plan. You assess. You network. You collaborate. You tweet, differentiate, administer literacy probes, scour 504s and…

An Index Of Teaching & Learning Strategies: 39 Effect Sizes In Ascending Order by Dana Schon, sai-iowa.org Effect Size Defined Statistically speaking, the strength of the relationship between two variables. John Hattie,…

The Shift From Surviving To Thriving As A Teacher by Terry Heick Teaching can do weird things to you. It can give you purpose and sanctuary, or dissolve both right in front of your eyes. It can energize and drain you. Inspire…

Teaching Creativity With Doodle 4 Google by Sophie Diao, The Google Doodle Team We all have the ability to think creatively, whether or not we’d identify ourselves as creative people. Creativity is a process, more than a natural spark,…

Mandating The Posting Of Learning Targets & Other Mindless Policies by Grant Wiggins Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were…

27 Classroom Management Strategies To Keep Things Fresh Classroom management is as much about instructional design and relationships as it is rules and discipline. Though there are certainly exceptional situations, in general the…

The Best Teachers Don't Do What They're Told by Terry Heick When I became a teacher, I wanted to be like Robin Williams in Dead Poet Society, bringing students to the thinking of old, dead (is that redundant?) white dudes. I…

10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation by Terry Heick For the Google Generation, information isn't scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away. I've written before about how Google…

The More I Lecture, The Less I Know If They Understand by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education I recently wrote that Understanding by Design is agnostic about any specific method or pedagogy. The bottom-line question has to do with…

Stoking The Fires Of Teaching & Learning by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher & Learnist Evangelist We had a nice snow day last week. Much of the nation has been getting those wintry days off--the type of days that makes…

10 Benefits Of Digital Planning For Teachers by Peter Hubbard, Daybookpro.com Planning engaging learning experiences for students, enabling them to meet or demonstrate specific standards or objectives, still remains the main part of the…

27 Ways To Respond When Students Don't Pay Attention Our initial reaction when seeing the following infographic from Mia MacMeekin was to think about instructional design rather than classroom management. That is, work backwards…

Struggling Students? Apathetic Performance? Add More Rigor, Stat Are your students struggling? Are test scores in the dumps? Do you spend all of your time researching, planning, teaching, and refining, to continued mediocre returns…

25 Teacher-Created, Free Lesson Plans For K-12 by Natalie Dean, Share My Lesson Share My Lesson is a digital platform where educators can collaborate and share learning resources such as lesson plans, classroom strategies and innovative…

5 Questions To Evaluate Curriculum For Rigor by Barbara Blackburn, author of Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word Last week, we discussed the true meaning of rigor. Now, we’ll examine the different parts of that definition. First, rigor is…

David Menasche was the high school English teacher at Coral Reef Senior High School in Miami that all of the students adored. He listened to punk rock music. He was adorned with tattoos. He was a former skateboarder. But, most of all, he…