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How To Kill Learner Curiosity In 12 Easy Steps

Terry Heick Feb 10, 2020

Killing a learner’s natural curiosity doesn’t happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in rare cases that isn’t long enough.

4 Ideas For Motivating Adolescent Male Readers

TeachThought Staff Jan 2, 2020

Since many boys do not read teacher-privileged literary fiction texts at home, many of them classify themselves as non-readers.

From Procedural Knowledge To Self Knowledge: The 4 Stages…

Terry Heick Oct 7, 2019

In the first stage of curiosity, students are primarily concerned with procedural knowledge: What they’re supposed to do and how.

The Definition Of Intrinsic Motivation

TeachThought Staff Sep 12, 2019

A definition of intrinsic motivation includes doing an activity for its inherent satisfaction rather than for some separable consequence.

9 Roles For The Teacher That Leads

TeachThought Staff Aug 18, 2019

This would be a teacher that, rather than distributing content and assessing, actually leads the learning experience from ground-zero.

How We Think About Education

Terry Heick Aug 15, 2019

The most fundamental idea in public education–the infinite interdependence of living that scrutiny of schools misses entirely.

10 Of Our Most Popular Articles About Student Engagement

TeachThought Staff Jul 25, 2019

From levels of student engagement to additive grading to remote teaching, here are 10 of our most popular articles about student engagement.

Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know

Terry Heick Mar 27, 2019

‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to…