Teaching Posts

What’s The Best Teaching Advice You’ve Ever Gotten?

This week’s topic is simple enough: What’s the best teaching advice you’ve ever gotten? Sound off in the comments and let us know.

Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know

Terrell HeickMar 27, 2019

‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need…

5 Tips For Teaching With Art In Any Subject…

TeachThought StaffMar 15, 2019

By engaging your students with works of art, you can help them see the world while teaching them to value diverse…

Should Teachers Give Their Phone Number To Parents?

TeachThought StaffMar 13, 2019

Don’t go giving parents your personal phone number. Bad idea. Very bad idea. Sign up for Google Voice to text parents.

Modern Trends In Education: 50 Different Approaches To Learning

What if a class consisted of words that led to information that whirled into blended realms of creativity set up just…

10 Ways To Give Students More Control Of Their…

TeachThought StaffFeb 24, 2019

One way to give students more control of their education is to allow them to create their own schedule–and revise it…

An Efficient Classroom: 6 Factors Of Academic Achievement

Terrell HeickFeb 24, 2019

What are the primary factors of academic performance? While literacy skills and background knowledge matter, so does motivation.

I’m Not Sure What To Think About Backward Design

Terrell HeickFeb 21, 2019

Backward design encourages you to plan for a destination not by anticipating but visualizing the end and planning backward from there.