Tag: Terry Heick

Integrating technology into teaching and learning is like adding electricity to architectural design: embedded from the beginning.

Of course, you won’t always be correct but the goal of these kinds of positive assumptions isn’t accuracy, it’s giving children room…

A choice board is a simple personalized learning tool that provides scaffolding, tiering, use of Bloom’s, multiple learning styles, and more.

Want to teach students empathy? Start by helping students themselves not, “How am I unique?” but rather “How are we the same?”

In school, learning is externally prompted by a quality judge, rather than curiosity, genius, or intended application in real-world learning.

One underlying assumption of a curriculum is that it’s comprised of knowledge and skills that are both knowable and worth knowing.

The purpose of curriculum is to provide a mutual language to organize and communicate knowledge–and students inherit its implications.

A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.