Dear Teachers, Today Is An Opportunity
Here’s a quick thought for you: Today is an opportunity. Today is your chance. Not some day generally or metaphorically. Today.
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Teaching Math Without Words
This TED Talk by Matthew Peterson seeks to explore what it would look like to teach math without using words.
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50 Ideas And Resources For More Visual Learning
How we experience sensory data has an effect on how we understand that information and visual learning is a part of that.
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Cultural Exchange Program Seeks Young Adults In 2016
24 global students will be selected to participate in IOU Respect, a program dedicated to exploring one another’s cultures & worldviews.
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Building A Thinking Classroom Without Technology
The onus isn’t on school budgets or clever technology but rather ourselves–our collective ability to forge truly thinking classrooms.
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40 Flipped Classroom Tools For Teachers And Students
What Are The Best Flipped Classroom Tools For Teachers And Students? by TeachThought Staff The flipped classroom has continued to enjoy momentum years after its introduction, speaking to its flexible nature, and to the need for a real change in thinking in how we think of time and space in education. Technology has been, more…
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9 Ground Rules For Great Principals
The following graphic from weareteachers.org takes a more general approach, but provides 9 clear tips–‘ground rules’–for great principals.
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New App Helps Students Learn To Avoid Non-Consensual Sex
The YES to SEX app helps students avoid non-consensual sex by requiring partners to digitally agree to consent and protection in <25 seconds.
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3 Tips For Teaching Close Reading
3 Tips For Teaching Close Reading by Dan Henderson, Author of That’s Special: A Survival Guide To Teaching Here are some best practices for close reading. Below I’ve included three strategies to support your close reading lesson, and beneath these tips, I have shared a story about a close reading lesson in which a student…
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TeachThought started off as a small teacher blog that I ran to share ELA teaching resources, and has grown into something pretty cool.
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100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking
What was your mindset going in to the activity? What do you discover about yourself during the learning process?
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Don’t Be A Teacher Bully
Okay, 100 words on the idea of a “teacher bully”….It’s easier to become one than you’d think. Teaching isn’t easy–stresses your time, patience, and emotional reserves. Some days, it seems certain students want to watch the world burn.But no matter how well-designed learning experiences are, the tone of your interactions with students can deflate a classroom…
