Stop Defining Learning By The Technology Used To Make It Happen by Terry Heick Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or…
Initially, in your teaching, you may want to practice aiming only for one Understanding per unit to get a feel for the kind of groundwork.
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It’s easy to think that implementing a new technology tool is only about making the technology work, but it is so much more.
“What we need, obviously, is a more intelligent–which is to say, a more accurate–description of the problem.” — Wendell Berry
Student-centered learning puts the needs of the students over the conveniences of planning, policy, and procedure.
Are Early Childhood Educators Teaching Geometry Backwards? by Dennis Pierce Summary: A recent webinar explains why it makes more sense to teach children about three-dimensional figures before they learn about two-dimensional shapes. Traditionally, young children are taught about two-dimensional shapes such as circles, squares, and triangles before they learn about three-dimensional figures such as spheres, cubes,…
Understanding promotes the spontaneous, personal, and creative application of understanding in dynamic physical and digital environments.
Using the right question at the right time can not evaluate understanding but can help students think about what they think.
Why Teaching Introverts Is Different by Terry Heick As education seeks to improve itself, the focus has been on data, research, and curriculum. The stuff teachers use. There is precious little discussion on the human elements of learning unless you’re discussing isolated movements such as social-emotional learning or whole-child trends. While admirable, these “movements” are…
Like the whole child, whole teachers are a mix of motivations and developmental drives. Here are 7 thinking habits that grow strong teachers.
7 Tips For Parents Of Struggling Readers Literacy starts and ends at home. Teachers instruct, support, promote, and provide, but if the bulk of the reading and writing isn’t done at home for authentic purposes and self-directed recreation, it will always be a matter of academic proficiency. Which is like food being a matter of…