Helping Students Tell Their Story Through Social Media
Human beings are storytellers by nature. Children especially love to hear stories, but aren’t always so keen on telling their own.
The Point Of School Isn’t To Be Good At School
The point of school is not to get good at school but to effectively parlay what we learned in school in other learning and in life.
20 Ways To Improve Student Follow-Through And Accountability
What about holding the student accountable? Let’s research-based strategies that give students the best chance for success.
4 Reasons That Technology Might Not Be Helping Them Learn
The problem may not be how you’re using the technology but rather how you’re limiting students in their use of the technology.
What Is Competency-Based Learning?
Competency-based learning is an approach to education that focuses on the student’s demonstration of desired learning outcomes.
Maybe Testing Isn’t The Problem After All
Maybe Testing Isn’t The Problem After All by Jessica Moore, 5th Grade Teacher After four years and hundreds of millions of federal Race to the Top dollars spent creating the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test—an assessment of the extent to which students are mastering the knowledge and skills necessary…
What Is Understanding?
Understanding: A Definition by Terry Heick Assessing understanding might be the most complex task an educator or academic institution is tasked with. Unfortunately, professional development gives a lower level of attention to developing quality assessments, training that is rarely commensurate with this complexity. The challenge of assessment is no less than figuring out what a…
7 Teaching Secrets For Long-Term Growth
What Are The Teaching Secrets For Long-Term Growth? by Terry Heick Ed note: This post has been updated and revised from an earlier post Good teaching is a major undertaking. Make no mistake–teaching has never been easy. But as we come upon 2014, as a profession teaching is increasingly characterized by its possibility, accountability, and…
Dear Teachers, Today Is An Opportunity
Here’s a quick thought for you: Today is an opportunity. Today is your chance. Not some day generally or metaphorically. Today.
Teaching Math Without Words
This TED Talk by Matthew Peterson seeks to explore what it would look like to teach math without using words.
50 Ideas And Resources For More Visual Learning
How we experience sensory data has an effect on how we understand that information and visual learning is a part of that.
40 Flipped Classroom Tools For Teachers And Students
What Are The Best Flipped Classroom Tools For Teachers And Students? by TeachThought Staff The flipped classroom has continued to enjoy momentum years after its introduction, speaking to its flexible nature, and to the need for a real change in thinking in how we think of time and space in education. Technology has been, more…
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