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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15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching
15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching by Terry Heick 15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching--And 15 That Are Not So Much Student-centered teaching is simply the process of teaching with student needs ...
The Problem With Most School Mission Statements
The Problem With Most School Mission Statements by Terry Heick Read your school mission statement, and tell me what you think. Respond in the comments if you can. Tell me who ...
How Learning In Your Classroom Is Different Than Learning In The Real-World
How Learning In Your Classroom Is Different Than Learning In The Real-World by Terry Heick Quick post with a basic premise: how are 'school learning' and 'real world learning' different? ...
Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking
Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking by Terry Heick As a culture, we have a thought crisis--namely, a harmful and enduring refusal and/or inability to think well and think critically. ...
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different by Terry Heick This post was one of our earliest posts from Terry Heick in very early 2012. It has now been updated ...
I And You And Us: 30 Inspiring Messages For Students
I And You And Us: 30 Inspiring Messages For Students by Terry Heick The premise is simple enough here: What are the kinds of messages that inspire students? We've talked ...
10 Strategies To Promote Curiosity In Learning
10 Strategies To Promote Curiosity In Learning by Terry Heick Curiosity is crucial to learning. For years, education has responded by admonishing teachers to 'engaged' students with 'engaging content,' but engagement ...
Opinion: Protect The Taxi Cab Industry From Innovation
Opinion: Protect The Taxi Cab Industry From Innovation a tongue-in-cheek opinion piece by Terry Heick ED NOTE: He's not talking about taxi cabs ;) We have to protect the taxicab ...
50 Challenging Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students
50 Challenging Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students by Terry Heick Literacy is changing--not at its core necessarily, but certainly at its edges as it expands to include ...
What Students Do Better Than Teachers
What Students Do Better Than Teachers by Terry Heick You can ask your students what they’re interested in—what they’re curious about—but that’s not the right question, because they probably don’t ...
Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know
Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know by Terry Heick Ed note: This has been updated from a 2014 post by the author The above image comes from a presentation ...
60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom
60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom by Terry Heick Google Classroom is quietly becoming the most powerful tool in education technology. It may lack the visual appeal of iPads, ...
12 Things Schools Could Be Instead Of Schools
12 Things Schools Could Be Instead Of Schools by Terry Heick What else could schools be? Instead of schools, I mean. Or at least as we think of the word ...
Grade Differently: 7 Categories To Create Learning Badges
Grade Differently: 7 Categories To Create Learning Badges by Terry Heick How can you help students see their own progress? And use that to motivate them? Encouragement mechanics--a kind of ...
18 Inconvenient Truths About Assessment
18 Inconvenient Truths About Assessment by Terry Heick For in-person professional development from TeachThought on effective assessment (or any other topic your school or district might need), contact us today. ...
What Is The Identity Of Your Classroom?
What Do Students Think Of Your Class? by Terry Heick Google is the company that has become its own verb. Google it. They’re also challenging Apple with their Android mobile ...
What Every Teacher Needs In Order To Grow
What Every Teacher Needs In Order To Grow by Terry Heick Teaching can do weird things to you. It can give you purpose and sanctuary, or dissolve both right in ...
