Using The 3-2-1 Learning Strategy For Critical Thinking
What Is The 3-2-1 Strategy And How Can It Be Used For Critical Thinking? by Terry Heick What’s the 3-2-1 strategy? The 3-2-1 strategy is simply a format that can…
Rethinking Learning Loss: When Students Don’t Use What They Learn
Rethinking Learning Loss: When Students Don’t Use What They Learn by Terry Heick With so much else to do and a subsequent loss of academic structure, most research shows children…
20 Questions To Clarify Your Teaching For 2022
20 Questions To Clarify Your Teaching For 2022 by Terry Heick Ed note: I wrote this in 2014 and have updated it several times since then, most recently in 2020.…
4 Strategies To Recharge Your Teaching
4 Strategies To Recharge Your Teaching by TeachThought Staff The last month of teaching was quite hard for me. I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated in the classroom, less tolerant,…
12 Mistakes For Teachers To Avoid In A Data-Driven Classroom
What To Avoid When Using Data To Revise Instruction In Your Classroom by Terry Heick How do you use data in your teaching? Or assessment? Functionally, the purpose of assessment…
What Close Reading Actually Means
by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute…
What Standardized Tests In School Actually Measure
What Do Standardized Tests Really Tell Us About Learning? by Grant Wiggins Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education,…
30 Questions Every Student Should Be Able To Answer
What Are The Kinds Of Questions That Help Students See Themselves As Learners? by Terry Heick These questions are more about the student than you, your classroom, or your education.…
Teaching Disruptively
Teaching Disruptively by Terry Heick Disruption has been a key theme of the information age. Disruption found legs in the 1990s under the careful study of Harvard professor Clayton Christensen.…
The Neurological Explanation For Practice Makes Perfect
The Neurological Explanation For Practice Makes Perfect by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed., radteach.com “Algebra is a way of arranging knowns and unknowns in equations so that the unknowns are made knowable. The three fundamentals…
How Learning Is Changing–And How School Can Change With It
Shouldn’t Personalized Learning Be Personal? The Connected Learning Model is one that’s a bit more simple than it sounds. Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito, research director of the Digital Media and Learning…
11 Underlying Assumptions Of Digital Literacy
Why Should Schools Teach Digital Literacy by Terry Heick In understanding the shift from literacy to digital literacy–or rather to understand them both in their own native contexts–it may help…
What Is SplashLearn? A K-5 Math Game For Kids
Using SplashLearn To Engage Students With K-5 Math Games This is sponsored content. See our disclosure page for more information. contributed by Joy Deep Nath, VP of SplashLearn What do kids really…
30 Examples Of Technology In Education
What Are Examples Of Learning Technology? by Terry Heick The goal of this post is simple: To provide examples of learning technology–identifying and clarifying what learning technology ‘is’ and ‘looks…
Knowledge Is Power And Teaching Is The Fuel
Knowledge Is Power And Teaching Is The Fuel by Terry Heick That knowledge = power isn’t a new idea. ’Knowledge is power’ is a common refrain in the education community,…
How Do You Teach Social-Emotional Learning?
How Do You Explain Social-Emotional Learning In The Classroom? The recent shift toward social-emotional learning (SEL)–accelerated by the shift to remote teaching and learning and the isolation of a global…
8 Strategies For Using TikTok For Learning
How Can You Use TikTok For Learning? by Terry Heick Whether or not you consider TikTok useful for learning likely depends on your grade level and content area, but also…
14 Apps For Struggling Or Hesitant Adolescent Readers
Tools And Apps To Help Struggling Teen Readers by TeachThought Staff One of my most important tasks as a reading teacher is matching students to books that they will love.…
6 Ways To Motivate Students Cognitively During Summer Break
How To Motivate Students During Summer Break contributed by Dr. Pamela Roggeman, academic dean at the University of Phoenix College of Education For decades, we have romanticized the idea of…
The Simplest Way To Slow The Summer Slide
by Terry Heick Like every year, there’s a lot of dialogue right now about the dreaded summer slide. Of course, this year is different than any in recent memory, and…
25 Resources And Ideas To Help Students Read More During The Summer
How To Motivate Students To Read More During The Summer contributed by Dr. Kimberly Tyson This post has been updated and republished Summer is here. Your child probably has a…
12 Things Every Lesson You Teach Should Have
What Should Be In Every Lesson Plan? by Terry Heick What should every lesson have? It’s a challenge to say what every single lesson imaginable should always have every single…
15 Reasons Schools Need Post-Progressive Teaching And Learning
Why Do Schools Need To Change? by Terry Heick We have for years now sought to be progressive; Let us instead seek a ‘post-progressive’ era of learning. ‘Progressive’ as a…
How To Turn Off The iPhone
How To Turn Off Every Generation Of iPhone by TeachThought Staff This might seem obvious, but there is a surprising amount of confusion over how to turn iPhones on and…
12 Apps For Better Teacher-Parent Communication
Apps and Tools To Support And Improve Teacher-Parent Communication by TeachThought Staff Teacher-parent communication is, ideally, a two-way street. It is best thought of in terms of purpose: Why do…