The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking
What’s The Question Game? A playful way to help students learn to ask the right question at the right time–with a paper cube.
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How We Use A Mentoring Model For Disadvantaged Students
When we started thinking about what a mentoring model for students should look like, we realized student peers should be a part of that.
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Infographic: Which Content Areas Are Most Valuable In Real Life?
Infographic: Which Content Areas Are Most Valuable In Real Life? by TeachThought Staff Which content areas are most valuable in real life? What do students think of your class? Not you or how you teach it, but the content area itself? The utility of various content areas is an understudied idea. We constantly think of…
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Let’s Develop A New Standard For School Security
Let’s Develop A New Standard For School Security contributed by Jeff Green This post has been updated and republished in light of the recent shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida As a former elementary principal and a father, December 14, 2012 had more than a great impact on me. While I was in…
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How Google Apps For Education Can Be Used In Your Classroom
How Can You Use Google Apps For Education In Your Classroom? by TeachThought Staff Like Apple and Microsoft, Google also wants a place in your classroom. See also 14 Of The Best Teaching Apps Google Apps for Education (now Google Workspace for Education) is a free suite of cloud-based tools created by Google to use…
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4 Steps Towards A More Personal Classroom
Want to get started with personalized learning? Do you know where they live? What they love? What they believe about themselves?
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Why Do I Want To Become A Teacher? To Give The Gift Of Literacy
I took a hard look at where I was going & realized what I had always known: I wanted to be an English Language Arts teacher,
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No Student Is Unreachable
Students who are challenging–i.e. victims of disruptive childhoods–do not change overnight. They require time to grow.
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How The Activity Learning Theory Works
Students need incremental challenges they can engage with at a social level so the entire community of learners can collaborativelay meaning.
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Study On People With Depression
People with depression use more first-person singular pronouns–such as ‘me,’ ‘myself’ and ‘I’–and significantly fewer third-person pronouns.
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42 Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts For Students To Design Their Own Projects
When helping students design projects, I provide these kinds of prompts to help students see how texts, apps, and more can all work together.
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Why Students Should Read
Why should students read? When we read–really, really read–for a while, a normally very loud part of us grows quiet.
