The Listening Teacher: Getting Feedback From Students contributed by Jane Healey, A Teacher Trying Harder To Listen “The single most important thing I learned in this class is that I don’t have to have tons of homework to learn a lot.” Mid-year or more frequently, I ask students to complete an evaluation form. I craft…
Minecraft in Education: What Minecraft Can Teach You About Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff Minecraft is a simple, clumsy-looking little game full of blocky graphics and unclear terms of play. It is essentially a giant sandbox of digital legos that players can do with what they wish–tear stuff down, dig holes, or build dizzying towers of…
How can you use data to improve your teaching? If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind.
There are dozens of graphics that help frame Bloom’s taxonomy is unique ways. The Taxonomy tree is one of them.
Pairing Teachers To Improve Professional Development contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher Professional development isn’t something that many teachers look forward to. By thinking about activities that engage teachers and bring motivation back into professional learning, schools make leaps and bounds in building a community that uses its own expertise to become stronger and…
What Are The Benefits Of Game-Based Learning? by TeachThought Staff There seems to be a perception that online gaming has a detrimental impact on children’s development. Nothing could be further from the truth, and there are countless–and complex–reasons for this, but it also makes sense to the basic benefits of game-based learning. Of course, children…
We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the world as we know it.
Education is at its strongest when learners are at the center of the process and can exercise their choices about what happens.
Brainstorming for problem-based learning: Which ‘parts’ of the world would most benefit from my creativity, affection, and sustained effort?
Most emerging educational technology will continue to radically reshape itself and thus continue ’emerging.’
From Canvas to Google Classroom, Absorb LMS, Cornerstone and more, here are 20 of the most popular learning management systems for schools.
At this point, accepted, protected, challenged, and aware, you can begin to agitate their thinking.
Students need access to lower-level information to then use in higher-level thinking that requires them to synthesize disparate perspectives.
A personal learning network is a group of people you connect with to learn from through their ideas, questions, backgrounds, and references.