Reflective Teaching Questions: A 30-Day Blogging Challenge For Teachers by TeachThought Staff We’ve talked about “reflective teaching” before, and shared ways to be a more reflective teacher as well. Well, through the work of Beth Leidolf and Justine Hughes, September is Reflective Teacher month at TeachThought. Beth and Justine have created a blogging challenge for…
Kid President gives a pep talk with humorous one-liners, playful editing, and a a direct address to both teachers and students.
I thought it might be useful to share a reading list that might help students begin to grapple and make sense of race relations in the US.
How To Create A Climate Of Possibility In Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff In May of last year, Ken Robinson–he of “Is School Killing Creativity?”/TED Talk legend status–gave a brief talk on the idea of contrast, specifically the difference between who we are and how we teach. His general message was that we, as human…
From RSS readers to social readers, this list has to have something that can improve the efficiency of what you do.
This reductive approach extends to industrialized practices of grouping, scheduling, and packaging of students, curriculum, & performance.
Education Technology Has Been Underwhelming So Far by Terry Heick At one point, email seemed like magic. And here we are, nearly 30 years after its inception, still watching the magic act but numb to what it’s done to communication. It’s hard not to take technology for granted–especially digital technology, a field that makes a…
Robin Williams in Dead Poet’s Society is the iconic teacher. Student-centered. Affectionate. Disruptive. Wisdom-seeking. Unconventional.
Depth of Knowledge frameworks can be useful for planning curriculum, designing assessments, or making judgments about student reading, writing, and math.
Assessment matrixes can be used by teachers to think about rigor when designing assessments to think more clearly about cognitive demand.
Want To Transform Education? Start In Your Classroom. by Terry Heick If it’s a standards-based, outcomes-based, institutionally-centered (and nationally participative) game we want, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better combination than Understanding by Design units (i.e., Wiggins) anchored around power standards (e.g., Strong, Silver, Perini, Dufour) that are then delivered through differentiated instruction (i.e.,…
Student-Driven Ed Reform Achieved Through Democracy by Chris Grouchy One thing is certain in almost every education jurisdiction in North America: macro decisions are made by adults that have been elected. They have the final say in the decisions that will impact thousands of students. These are not menial decisions we’re talking about either—allocating funds through…