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Think Like A Fitbit: Measuring What We Value
Think Like A Fitbit: Measuring What We Value contributed by Chase Orton I spent the summer asking math teachers the following question: At the end of the school year, how...
10 Ways To Be A More Reflective Teacher
Don't become addicted to 'fixing' your teaching; celebrate what you do well. Identify strengths and use them to bolster where you're weak.
10 Things Every Teacher Needs To Survive
10 Things Every Teacher Needs To Survive by Terry Heick What a teacher needs depends on the teacher. Emerging learning trends, data management resources, literacy strategies, digital tools, exemplar curriculum...
50 Ways To Challenge Yourself As A Teacher
50 Ways To Challenge Yourself As Teacher by TeachThought Staff Growing as a teacher is all about challenging yourself--moving out of our comfort zone, trying something new. Here are 50 ideas...
What An Episode Of King Of The Hill Taught Me About Good Teaching
What An Episode Of King Of The Hill Taught Me About Good Teaching by Matthew Byars There’s an episode of the animated TV show King of the Hill in which...
27 Ways To Enhance Retention In Your Students
27 Ways To Enhance Retention In Your Students by TeachThought Staff How you can help students retain what they learn? What sort of teaching strategies, curriculum mapping techniques, or other changes can...
From Tech To Pedagogy: 8 Tips For History Teachers
From Tech To Pedagogy: 8 Simple Tips For History Teachers contributed by Manuel Muroni As a teacher, one of the most difficult subjects to teach can be history. With only...
3 Ways You Can Respond When Students Turn In Incomplete Work
3 Ways You Can Respond When Students Turn In Incomplete Work contributed by Heather M. Stocker It’s like looking at a photograph where only a small bit of the picture...
52 Mistakes We Need To Stop Making In Education
52 Mistakes We Need To Stop Making In Education by Terry Heick The context for this one is simple enough--what mistakes do we constantly make in education that hold us back...
15 Rules Of Great Teaching
15 Rules Of Great Teaching by Terry Heick Recently, I've been thinking of the universal truths in teaching. Students should be first. Don't always start planning with a standard. Questions...
Want To Become A Better Teacher? Try Slowing Down
Want To Become A Better Teacher? Try Slowing Down by Terry Heick The gift of my fifth year of teaching was patience. Every year something new occurs to me as...
3 Group Work Strategies That Help Hold All Students Accountable
3 Group Work Strategies That Help Hold All Students Accountable by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD We love and encourage collaborative work between students (and teachers) and this is...
6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom's Spiraling is the process of starting first at lower levels of Bloom's--recalling, defining, explaining, etc.--and then progressively increasing the level of thinking.
12 Ideas For Holiday Activities In The Classroom
12 Ideas For Holiday Activities In The Classroom by TeachThought Staff This is sponsored content from education.com. They only wanted to let you know about the free activities and downloads they have available on their...
12 Alternatives To Letter Grades In Education
12 Alternatives To Letter Grades In Education by Terry Heick Ed note: This post was originally published in November of 2012 and has been updated several times, most recently in...
20 Ways To Provide Effective Feedback For Learning
For learning feedback, consider using the concept of a 'feedback sandwich' to guide your feedback: Compliment, Correct, Compliment.
Help Your Students See Their Gifts: Create A Class Resume
Help Your Students See Their Gifts: Create A Class Resume contributed by Laurel Schmidt, myedexpert.com Teachers don’t get to set the culture of their school, but they do define the...
5 Levels Of Student Engagement: A Continuum For Teaching
5 Levels Of Student Engagement: A Continuum For Teaching by Terry Heick Years ago, I worked with a school in Kentucky that had adopted Phil Shlechty's "Working on the Work"...
