40 Ideas For Using FlipGrid In The Classroom
Short, easy-to-create-and-share video isn't hugely different than writing--useful for assessment, collaboration, reflection, and more.
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5 Challenges We Overcame Moving To A Flipped Staff Meeting
One of the best aspects of being able to flip meetings is giving freedom, choice, and leadership opportunities to the teachers themselves.
How To Make A Movie Poster: A Template For Students
The benefit of creating movie posters in the classroom is that they require the students to concisely 'capture' a film in order to persuade others.
Developing Confident Students Using Gradual Release Of Responsibility
To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you?
An Innovative Learning Model: How To Sync Your Classroom
Synced learning requires two potentially opposing technologies: the ability to engage the same core material, and the ability to engage the material independently.
25 Questions To Guide Teaching With Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning can benefit from planning ahead--clarity in what students are actually doing and why.
8 Sneaky But Effective Simple School-Improvement Strategies
8 Sneaky But Effective Simple School-Improvement Strategies by Terry Heick Education reform is tricky. For one, so many teachers are wary of change. Not improvement, mind you, but change for ...
How To Create A Forward-Leaning Curriculum
How To Create A Forward-Leaning Curriculum contributed by Thom Markham, Educator This post has been updated from a 2013 post. To learn more about professional development around these ideas, contact ...
What Is The Feynman Technique?
What Is The Feynman Technique? by Terry Heick What is The Feynman Technique? In short, it's a simple approach to self-directed learning that is based on distilling what you ...
How To Use IXL: 8 Tips For Using The K-12 Adaptive Learning Platform
How To Use IXL: 8 Tips For Using The K-12 Adaptive Learning Platform by TeachThought Staff IXL is a personalized learning platform used by over 400,000 teachers worldwide. It combines ...
12 Ways To Make YouTube Safer For Children
YouTube offers effortless consumption of millions of videos. In the unsupervised hands of children, this presents a challenge.
How Twitter Can Help Students Write Better Thesis Statements
How Twitter Can Help Students Write Better Thesis Statements by TeachThought Staff Few concepts bewilder young writers--emerging, hesitant, struggling, and gifted alike--more than the thesis statement. The definition of a ...
How To Use Locked Mode On Google Chromebook
How To Use Locked Mode On Google Chromebook by TeachThought Staff We've talked about ways to use Google Classroom. Today, we're going to take a look at a simple feature ...
How To Use Flipgrid: A Guide For Teachers
How To Use Flipgrid: A Visual Guide For Teachers by TeachThought Staff What is Flipgrid? In short, Flipgrid is a free, education-focused platform to create and share short videos. Quick Overview: ...
60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom
60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom by Terry Heick Google Classroom is quietly becoming the most powerful tool in education technology. It may lack the visual appeal of iPads, ...
How To Add Feedback To Student Writing On Google Docs
How To Add Feedback To Student Writing On Google Docs by TeachThought Staff Feedback is crucial for learning but there is an art and a science to its use. In ...
How To Add And Delete Questions To A Google Form
How To Add And Delete Questions To A Google Form by TeachThought Staff How do add and/or delete questions on a Google Form? It's really quite simple. Recently, we offered ...
15 Of The Best Ways To Share Large Files
15 Of The Best Ways To Share Large Files by TeachThought Staff As a modern teacher, you probably need to share stuff and have stuff shared with you. 'Stuff' like ...
