How To Design A Wikipedia Writing & Research Assignment
The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for researching credibility.
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A Teacher Planning Model For Multiple Intelligences
How can I use one student’s tendencies and ‘intelligences’ to support them in developing other less-developed areas?
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What Your Social Media Habits Say About Your Teaching Style
What Do Your Social Media Habits Reveal About Your Teaching Style? You’re a lurker—love social media, but more the media than the social, so you stay in the background—looking, skimming, saving, and skimming and looking some more, but always quietly, and always just out of sight. You spend an hour or two tops online—just the basics—messages, some shopping…
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How To Use The TeachThought Search Engine
The TeachThought Search Engine is a vastly improved way to find the content you’re looking for as an educator.
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12 Strategies For Teaching Literature In The 21st-Century
From affording choice to anchoring year-long discussion of certain themes, here are strategies for teaching literature in the 21st century.
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Improving Discipline In High School By Gamifying Good Behavior
By rewarding students for good behavior, Kentucky’s Valley High School is attempting to transform its culture and engage students.
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Learning Is Not About The Technology
It is about the technology when you don’t use the technology because you don’t feel comfortable or knowledgeable.
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Generation Screen: What Social Media Has Done To Children
For some in ‘Generation Screen,’ things that are ‘viral’ can be seen as preferable to things that affect and endure.
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Millionaire High School Dropout: ‘School Doesn’t Work For Anyone’
I had these teachers that were negative. One told me to drop out and work at McDonald’s because that was all I would amount to in life.
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Understanding: The Problem With Breaking The Whole Into Parts
Mastery of a complex whole requires designing backward from the complex whole and the interesting questions related to it.
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How To Read A Book: 3 Strategies & Questions For Critical Reading
Critical reading includes ‘Inspectional Reading’: Reading with a focus on grasping the book as a ‘whole thing’–also called ‘Systematic skimming.’
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New Report Ranks Oregon Best, Mississippi Worst Identifying Homeless Students
New Report Ranks Oregon Best, Mississippi Worst At Identification Of Homeless Students by TeachThought Staff from a press release A new report released by the Institute of Children, Poverty and Homelessness ranked the fifty states and the District of Columbia by how effectively they identify homeless students within their school systems. Oregon, New York and…
