Tag: Terry Heick

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?

In a digital classroom, teachers can become worried that no ‘real learning’ is happening, or that they’ve somehow failed to plan sufficiently.

Problems still surfaced but with a system in place, it was much easier to identify exactly what went wrong and why and communicate it to students.

This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.

Ambition precedes curiosity. Without wanting to advance, learn, change, or grow, curiosity is simply a biological and neurological reaction to stimulus.

It's an extraordinary amount of work to design precise and personalized assessments that illuminate pathways forward for individual students.

In understanding the shift from literacy to digital literacy, it may help to take a look at the underlying assumptions of digital literacy.

The 'giving' of yourself implies that you give your whole self to the act of teaching--that you merge your 'self' and your pedagogy.

Even as apps have fallen in favor, mobility is the new standard. Information, communication, search, and identity—mobility matters in the modern world.