Why Being Wrong Is Actually A Good Thing
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.
Tag: Terry Heick
5 Learning Strategies That Make Students Curious
Ambition precedes curiosity. Without wanting to advance, learn, change, or grow, curiosity is simply a biological and neurological reaction to stimulus.
18 Inconvenient Truths About Assessment Of Learning
It's an extraordinary amount of work to design precise and personalized assessments that illuminate pathways forward for individual students.
11 Underlying Assumptions Of Digital Literacy
In understanding the shift from literacy to digital literacy, it may help to take a look at the underlying assumptions of digital literacy.
The Selflessness Of Pedagogy: What Every Teacher Gives
The 'giving' of yourself implies that you give your whole self to the act of teaching--that you merge your 'self' and your pedagogy.
10 Ways Teaching Has Changed In The Last 10 Years
Even as apps have fallen in favor, mobility is the new standard. Information, communication, search, and identity—mobility matters in the modern world.
10 Statements To Help Students Understand Wisdom
Wisdom is knowing what's worth understanding, understanding the value of ideas, and always placing knowing in the context of not knowing
How To Add Rigor To Anything
In rigorous tasks, learners will often need to synthesize data, positions, or theories from multiple sources or perspectives.
Why Should I Go To School? 20 Reasons To Learn In A Changing World
"Why should I go to school?" This is a question rarely given serious attention, much less a credible answer that makes sense to children.
Why Teachers Need One Another
Who gets to say you're doing a good job as a teacher? When you go to bed at night, whose approval are you really looking for?
Tone In Teaching: 20 Words That Can Change How Students Think
Tone affects how students see themselves and their role in the learning process. The words you use when interacting with students can have a lasting impact.
The Problem With Most School Mission Statements
Why do we create goals and mission statements among the planets and stars, then insist on data and strategies grounded in research and reality?
The Two Minds Of An Educator
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
Why Worrying About Screen Time Might Be The Wrong Approach
While screen time certainly matters, focusing only on time is like developing a literacy program that focuses only on 'minutes read.'
Developing Confident Students Using Gradual Release Of Responsibility
To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you?
20 Things You Can Learn In 10 Minutes To Become A Better Teacher
Here are 20 (mostly) simple things you can do (relatively) quickly to become a better teacher.
Critical Reading: 50 Sentence Stems To Help Students Talk About What They Read
Critical reading is a matter of gathering knowledge, understanding context and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.
25 Questions To Guide Teaching With Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning can benefit from planning ahead--clarity in what students are actually doing and why.
