Learning Posts

10 Metacognitive Prompts To Help Students Reflect On Their…

TeachThought StaffApr 16, 2019

Metacognitive prompts can help students reflect on learning by illuminating exactly what their mind is doing during the learning process.

Here’s What Students Do Better Than Teachers

Terrell HeickMar 28, 2019

Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures…

8 Of The Most Common Sources Of Formative Assessment…

TeachThought StaffFeb 21, 2019

The usefulness of student data is generally proportional to the frequency with which it’s collected. Here are eight sources of formative…

6 Powerful Strategies For Deeper Learning In Your Classroom

TeachThought StaffFeb 15, 2019

Deeper Learning is a set of student outcomes that includes mastery of essential academic content, thinking critically, and solving complex problems.

Where Has The Joy Of Learning Gone?

TeachThought StaffFeb 11, 2019

When joy and comfort are absent, students’ brains are distanced from effective information processing and long-term memory storage.

Learning Theories: Adaptive Control Of Thought

Terrell HeickFeb 7, 2019

ACT-R is a way of specifying how the brain itself is organized in a way that enables individual processing modules to…

10 Simple Ways To Engage In Lifelong Learning

Lifelong learning preserves an individual’s desire to obtain new knowledge outside of the formal education system.

4 Things Every Student Should Do Every Day

Terrell HeickJan 27, 2019

From asking questions to feeling a sense of progress, here’s a quick list of things that every student should do every…