Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers by Terry Heick Imagine the dogged pursuit of a proper clock-maker, day after day bound up in design and measurement and function and ...
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38 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking With Bloom’s Taxonomy
38 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking With Bloom's Taxonomy contributed by Peter Pappas My interest in reflective thinking is rooted in a simple but powerful statement by Donald Finkel who wrote ...
30 Questions Teachers Could Ask At Their Next Job Interview
30 Questions Teachers Could Ask At Their Next Job Interview by Terry Heick So you're considering taking a teaching job? Or at least interviewing? What should you be asking to ...
50 Questions Every Student Should Be Able To Answer Before They Graduate High School
50 Questions Every Student Should Be Able To Answer Before They Graduate High School by Terry Heick For professional development on ideas like this--or PBL, inquiry, assessment, literacy, and pretty ...
20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching This Year So Next Year Is Better
image attribution flickr user flickeringbrad 20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching This Year So Next Year Is Better by Terry Heick I don't know how ...
15 Questions To Ask When Introducing New Content To Students
15 Questions To Ask When Introducing New Content To Students by Terry Heick It just might be that in a society where information is abundant, thinking habits are more important ...
What Is The Purpose Of A Question?
What Is The Purpose Of A Question? by Terry Heick What's the difference between a good question and a bad question? It depends, of course, on who you're asking. But ...
A Giant List Of Really Good Essential Questions
Many, Many Examples Of Essential Questions by Terry Heick Essential questions are, ask Grant Wiggins defines, ‘essential' in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries." These are grapple-worthy, ...
Always-On Inquiry: Why You Should Be Asking More Questions In Your Classroom
Always-On Inquiry: Why You Should Be Asking More Questions In Your Classroom by Irena Nayfeld, TeachThought PD Inquiry Workshop Facilitator Those of us who spend our days around young children ...
50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think
50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think contributed by Lisa Chesser Using the right questions creates powerful, sometimes multiple answers and discussions. Aristotle said that he asked ...
Good Teachers Stick To The Lines, Great Teachers Inspire New Lines
Good Teachers Stick To The Lines, Great Teachers Inspire New Lines by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD On September 3rd, 2017 I was saddened by the news of the ...
4 Questioning Strategies For Effective & Thoughtful Teaching
4 Questioning Strategies For Effective & Thoughtful Teaching by Paul Moss This is the first article in a series of 4 discussing strategies to assist in becoming a better teacher. ...
12 Questions To Help Help Students See Themselves As Thinkers
Merging Metacognition & Citizenship by Terry Heick Ed note: This post parallels our self-directed learning model. Why should someone learn? While Paulo Freire, John Dewey, and others have provided compelling arguments ...
100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking
100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking by Terry Heick Last year I wrote a post on how to help students think for themselves. TeachThought reader Peter Duckett wrote ...
5 Ways To Help Students Ask Better Questions
5 Ways To Help Students Ask Better Questions by Terry Heick There's nothing I care more about than students, and there are few things I think can serve a student ...
Ep. 19: Learning For Social And Personal Change With Kahoot!
Ep. 19: Learning For Social And Personal Change With Kahoot! by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought Professional Development This is episode 19 of the TeachThought Podcast! Drew Perkins talks with ...
Why Emotion Is More Important Than Understanding
Why Emotion Is More Important Than Understanding by Terry Heick Ed note: This post has been updated from a previous post with new imagery, a new metaphor, new title, and ...
20 Questions To Guide Inquiry-Based Learning
20 Questions To Guide Inquiry-Based Learning Recently we took at look at the phases of inquiry-based learning through a framework, and even apps that were conducive to inquiry-based learning on the ...
