types of analogies

A Guide For Teaching With Analogies

Terrell HeickOct 20, 20218 min read

A Guide For Teaching With Analogies by Terry Heick Analogies are one of the best-kept secrets in education. Often used as multiple choice question items or as warm-ups to begin a lesson, analogies are useful teaching and learning strategies because…

A Short, Humorous Look At Rigor In The Classroom

A Short, Humorous Look At Rigor In The Classroom

TeachThought StaffJan 25, 20141 min read

A Short, Humorous Look At Rigor In The Classroom Are your students struggling? Are test scores in the dumps? Do you spend all of your time researching, planning, teaching, and refining, to continued mediocre returns on state and district tests?…

Crowdsourcing In Education: 11 Underlying Principles

Crowdsourcing In Education: 11 Underlying Principles

TeachThought StaffJan 25, 20144 min read

by Chris Yim, UClass.io Crowsourcing is huge in other industries, but has yet to affect education It doesnt make sense that teachers are recreating lessons over and over again With the Common Core transition, it makes more sense than ever that teachers…

‘Auld Lang Syne’: Robert Burns & Resources For Teaching His Poetry

‘Auld Lang Syne’: Robert Burns & Resources For Teaching His Poetry

TeachThought StaffJan 25, 20143 min read

Robert Burns, ‘Auld Lang Syne’, & Resources For Teaching His Poetry by Michael Russell, Cabinet Secretary of Education for Scotland Robert Burns is Scotland’s national poet, by custom and tradition. He began writing poetry and songs at an early age and…

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25 Teacher-Created, Free Lesson Plans For K-12

TeachThought StaffJan 24, 20144 min read

25 Teacher-Created, Free Lesson Plans For K-12 by Natalie Dean, Share My Lesson Share My Lesson is a digital platform where educators can collaborate and share learning resources such as lesson plans, classroom strategies and innovative ideas, at no cost. The site…

Game-Based Learning Apps: Universe Sandbox

Game-Based Learning Apps: Universe Sandbox

TeachThought StaffJan 23, 20141 min read

Game-Based Learning Apps: Universe Sandbox App: Universe Sandbox Platform: PC Price: $9.99 on Steam (though they often have sales–put it in on your wishlist and they’ll notify you when it goes on sale) Grade Levels: Ages to 5 to however old you are…

5 Questions To Evaluate Curriculum For Rigor

5 Questions To Evaluate Curriculum For Rigor

TeachThought StaffJan 23, 20145 min read

Evaluate Curriculum For Rigor With These 5 Questions by Barbara Blackburn, author of Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word Last week, we discussed the true meaning of rigor. Now, we’ll examine the different parts of that definition. First, rigor is creating an…