12 Reasons Students Don’t Read & What You Can Do About It
12 Common Reasons Students Don’t Read & What You Can Do About It by Terry Heick Why don’t students read more? Digital distractions? No books at home? Too much testing? Kim Kardashian? It depends on the student. It depends on…
The Ultimate List: 50 Strategies For Differentiated Instruction
Ways To Use Strategies For Differentiated Instruction In Your Classroom by Terry Heick Differentiation is a simple idea that’s less simple to actuate. Differentiation is a rational approach to meeting the needs of individual learners, but actually making it possible…
60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves
How To Help Students Think For Themselves Motivating and engaging students is the goal of most teachers–priming them to receive instruction, or otherwise align themselves to a pre-set process you’ve sketched out that you hope will yield a learning goal…
4 Ways Personalized Learning Could Change Teaching
How Personalized Learning Could Change Teaching contributed by Jennifer Jones PhD, Educational Entrepreneur and Founder of Green Ivy Schools This post has been updated and republished Increasingly, teachers at the high school and middle school levels (and perhaps even elementary…
The Big Picture: 8 Ways To Future-Proof Your Teaching
What Are The Best Ways To Future-Proof Your Teaching? by Terry Heick It’s pretty clear–and frustrating–that in lieu of the incredible effort and expertise of teachers, and billions of dollars spent by departments of education globally, that our collective education…
10 Innovative Learning Strategies For Modern Pedagogy
What Are The Most Innovative Learning Strategies For Modern Pedagogy? by TeachThought Staff This is an excerpt from a report, produced by The Open University in collaboration with SRI International, that proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but…
3 Simple Ways To Help Students Get Started With Activism
Image attribution flickr user Tulane Public Relations How Can You Help Students Get Started With Activism? contributed by Erin Werra The next generation of heroes is walking the halls of schools today, and you’re uniquely poised to help them along.…