20 Tips To Promote A Self-Directed Classroom Culture
When a task feels overwhelming, the ‘I can,’ quickly falls apart. Teach students how to break down a big project into miniature steps.
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How To Never Run Out Of New Ideas As A Teacher
Just like a great teacher can teach anything, a great learner can learn from almost anything–and teachers are first learners.
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Getting To Know Students Starts With Asking The Right Questions
Want To Get To Know Your Students? Ask The Right Questions. contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Teacher It’s back to school time! Whether you’ve been teaching for two minutes or twenty years, this is a critical time of year. You meet your students. They stare you down. Not averages stare–the types of stares kids go home…
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The Recent History Of The Neuroscience Of Learning: A Brief Overview
Advances in neuroscience & the capacity to investigate the functioning of the brain have really enabled us to see what happens when we learn.
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12 Of The Best ASMR Videos With No Talking
ASMR is “Autonomous Soothing Meridian Response,’ and means being soothed by sounds and textures not generally considered soothing.
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7 Ways To Improve Parental Involvement In The Classroom
Everyone agrees that parental involvement in student learning is important, and in fact a key factor in their success.
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16 Things I Want To Hear My Students Say
“Ohhh, I get it.” The iconic phrase that teachers value hearing. A sign you’ve moved a student. Something you want to hear your students say.
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Why Parents Don’t Understand How To Help
Families and communities often only recognize the bits and pieces of education they’ve seen before–letter grades, essays, book reports, and report cards.
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5 Ways To Engage Reluctant Learners
While there are no magic bullets, certain principles & strategies can harness the intrinsic motivation that lies at the heart of each learner.
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A Video Walkthrough For Civilization VI Beginners
At TeachThought, we love learning through video games, and Civilization VI is one of our favorite games to learn with and through.
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This Is One Of The Best Games To Teach Social Studies
We’re blown away by Civilization VI’s complexity, scale, and potential as a tool for teaching social studies.
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Revisiting 25 Predictions I Made About The Future Of Education
25 Predictions I Made About The Future Of Education by Terry Heick Originally published Dec 22, 2012 Preface: I talk a lot about the future of learning, and sometimes it’s fun to go back and look to see how off I was about some things while getting lucky and being a little less wrong about…
