Why You Teach: Developing A Teacher Mission Statement by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Why do you teach? I am not asking this question in the sense often assumed, i.e. why do you personally want to teach? That kind of egocentric stuff never appeals to me. I am not interested in a teacher’s account of personal motive…
How To Make Twitter A Mainstream Tool For School Improvement by Terry Heick, Using twitter as a learning tool doesn’t require much imagination. Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows people to share and skim a large quantity of ideas in a short period of time. Students can connect with experts, socialize thinking, participate in…
Getting Students To Stop Learning And Start Thinking by TeachThought Staff Jacob Barnett, a 12 year-old that’s been diagnosed with Autism, has some simple advice for you: Instead of being a student of that field, be the field. In the 17 minute video below, in his own charming way he describes multiple historical events, from…
Conferences provide a forum for offering help & building confidence — how can teachers use them to support students in virtual classrooms?
Start with the idea of why a teacher should tweet with students (literacy, citizenship, etc.), then move to the idea of a ‘routine.’
At age 10, Gabriel worked on T-cell receptor research and studied synthetic biology for undergraduate college students at MIT.
Do you have fond memories of going to your local library to do research on a school assignment? Or just to pass the time, browsing through old books, photo archives and other fascinating materials? You can explore similar (or in some cases, the very same) archives online without leaving the house, thanks to the Digital…
How To Adapt A Social Learning Strategy Framework For Education Social learning strategies are, generally speaking, the stuff of businesses and brands. The word “learning” in the above phrasing is misleading, usually referring to how a business can “learn” what does and doesn’t work in regards to their social media and community strategies. It was…
Edutopia Continues Their Leadership, Launches New Research Arm Our friends at Edutopia, long-time proponents of project-based learning, purveyors of schools that work, and leaders in forward-thinking in education, are at it again. Their latest idea is GLEF Research, a new “branch” of their progressive education tree designed to strengthen the relationship between research and emerging trends in…
It is the continual addressing of essential questions that moves us from naïve and okay teachers to skilled professionals teaching learning.
Brain-based teaching strategies include simply predicting and responding, which require the brain to actually engage.
The First Day Of School In A 9th Grade Classroom That Runs Like Clockwork: A Video Of Classroom Management We don’t talk much about classroom management here at TeachThought. (Well, sometimes we do.) First and foremost, our mission is to both think about and enable better ways of learning in highly-connected, 21st century society: critical thinking,…