How We Created A Reading Program For Urban Students In Poverty
We saw a need for a reading program and created one via teacher empowerment, focus on reading strategies, and high-interest texts.
-
-
Want To Change Education? You’d Better Have These 6 Things
You Need These 6 Things To Change Education by Terry Heick Every afternoon, after failing to take a nap because I make everything harder than it has to be, I pout down to Starbucks for coffee and a book. Today a teacher I used to work with walked by, and we caught up for a…
-
How My Students Create Their Own TED Talks
Using the TED Talks format, students create speeches to inform and persuade their peers about key social, cultural, & environmental issues.
-
48 Critical Thinking Questions For Any Content Area
Critical thinking questions include, ‘Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?”
-
Alternatives To Homework: A Chart For Teachers
Homework can be useful to help students learning, but isn’t always the best strategy. Here are alternatives to homework: a chart for teachers.
-
The Potential Of Video Recording In Student Reflection
Video recording can help students express themselves in a more natural language than the tone they’d use to construct written ideas.
-
Chance The Rapper Is Starting An Awards Show For Teachers
In an effort to give back to his community, Chance the Rapper has noticed a disparity and is working to improve his hometown of Chicago.
-
Is Cognitive Load Theory The Most Important Thing A Teacher Should Know?
If you ask a student to apply problem-solving skills when they are learning new and critical information, you’re asking the brain to do two things at once. This limits both processes. The task is ‘complex’ but not in a way that benefits the student.
-
Podcast Ep. 85: Hyperlinking & Digital Learners Preferences
Do digital learners prefer hyperlinking data sources in an assortment of media forms from a range of media sources?
-
What Is The Cognitive Load Theory? A Definition For Teachers
The Cognitive Load Theory is built on the premise that the brain can only do so many things at once and need to plan lessons accordingly.
-
What Writing Is & Is Not
Writing is hard work–cognitively demanding and accessible via skill and perseverance and grit. Read more about what writing is & is not.
-
The TeachThought Podcast Passes 100,000 Downloads!
Woo-Hoo! The TeachThought Podcast Passes 100,000 Downloads! by Terry Heick Summary Start a podcast, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. So we did, and you’ve downloaded it over 100,000 times. That’s pretty cool. About The TeachThought Podcast Due to the hard work of TeachThought Professional Development Director Drew Perkins, the TeachThought podcast has reached…
End of content
End of content