Tag: Terry Heick

Rethinking grading in project-based learning can support and encourage students by clarifying complexity and rewarding nuance of understanding.

Working hard also means being smart. Prioritizing, collaborating, and working with a 'do less' partner can all help you reduce your workload as a teacher.

Competency-Based Education isn't necessarily an example of innovation in higher education, but a shift towards it can lead to more critical developments.

The stages of education technology include a 'post-app' era characterized by blended learning and genuine mobility in communities native to the learner.

If I begin curriculum planning by identifying 'power standards,' where does the differentiation-based-on-assessment-results occur?

Indicators of efficient teaching are similar to indicators of efficiency in other fields: It's about smart design and refinement over time.

How schools are designed and what students learn--and why--must be scrutinized with at least as much as enthusiasm as we muster for Netflix or sports.

When introducing students to new content, the right questions and language can help disarm uncertainty and encourage students to develop a growth mindset.

Whether parents should 'schedule' reading at home depends on many factors--not the least of which is how you 'frame' reading and how they respond.

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.

Factors that disrupt student academic performance include weak responses to data, work outside of the students' ZPD, and little depth of knowledge.

I am responsible for everyone and thing in this class and therefore at times what I say and do may confuse you or even seem unfair or wrong.

If you want a child to give up, constantly emphasize their shortcomings and let them know you're doing so for their own good.

After the teachers disappeared, students knew that if they were too rowdy someone would notice, so they kept the noise to a minimum.

Amazon has 800-word reviews on exercise machines, but the best we can do to evaluate the quality of learning is to 'hear' a school is 'good.'

A good school decenters itself--makes technology, curriculum, policies, and its other 'pieces' less visible than students and hope and growth.

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

If you had to start somewhere--with one idea or 'thing' to change, what would it be? What if your only goal was to change the arc of your students' lives?