What Is An Essential Question? by TeachThought Staff Essential Questions are thought-provoking and open-ended questions that serve as the core of a lesson or unit in a curriculum. Well-written, they should promote inquiry and critical thinking, inquiry, and a deeper understanding of a topic. Essential Questions often do not have a single correct answer and…
Tips for improving family engagement through home-school communication include goal setting and consistent communication.
Critical reading is reading with the purpose of critical examination of the text and its implicit and explicit themes and ideas.
Some of the more popular interactive learning tools include Kahoot!, Flip, Quizziz, and Nearpod, all designed to make learning interactive.
Ensure online lessons run smoothly with essential checks before streaming. and what cyber threats to look out for and how to protect yourself.
by TeachThought Staff Do not limit a child to your own learning, for they were born for another time. R Tagore While each generation is unique, possessing its own challenges, opportunities, and cultural contexts, the methods of teaching and the knowledge passed down often reflect the values and norms of previous eras. This gap between…
Circle practice in the classroom involves sitting in a circle and engaging in age-approriate meaningful dialogue.
From promoting vocabulary to fostering creative storytelling, LEGOs offer a surprisingly useful tool for literacy education
Educational gamification doesn’t mean turning every lesson into a game but rather using game features to enrich lessons.
If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.
Every genius is unique, and finding their professional path involves thoroughly studying a career that meets their need for meaning.
New ideas, often in the shape of ‘fads,’ are, at best, distractions. It just might be that education already has more than enough new ideas.