Learning Posts

10 Principles Of Proficiency-Based Learning

TeachThought StaffJan 17, 2021

Our principles of proficiency-based learning support achievement evaluated against learning objectives pursued through flexible pathways.

5 Teaching Strategies For Deep Learning In Virtual Environments

Here are 5 specific and practical strategies, along with associated tools, that promote deep learning in virtual and physical classrooms.

5 Strategies For Teaching Students To Use Metacognition

TeachThought StaffDec 16, 2020

Teaching strategies for student metacognition include modeling it, defining it, and clarifying how it helps them beyond the classroom.

What Are The Primary Human Drives?

TeachThought StaffDec 13, 2020

In outlining this theory, Rifkin provides four fundamental human needs culminating in a ‘first drive’: the drive to belong.

11 Personalized Learning Strategies That Work

Terrell HeickDec 7, 2020

A choice board is a simple personalized learning tool that provides scaffolding, tiering, use of Bloom’s, multiple learning styles, and more.

How Class Learning Is Different Than Real-World Learning

Terrell HeickDec 7, 2020

In school, learning is externally prompted by a quality judge, rather than curiosity, genius, or intended application in real-world learning.

The Underlying Assumptions Of A Curriculum

Terrell HeickDec 6, 2020

One underlying assumption of a curriculum is that it’s comprised of knowledge and skills that are both knowable and worth knowing.

25 Things Tests Can’t Measure In Students

Humility, curiosity, creativity, resilience, compassion, and 20 other things that tests can’t measure in students.