Exactly Where To Start With School Improvement
If schools serve students and students are deeply embedded in the fabric of communities, how can we serve those students without knowing those communities?
50 Things You Can Say To Encourage A Child
There are many ways to encourage a child but persistent, well-timed, positive messages are among the most powerful.
4 Things Innovative Schools Have In Common
4 Things Innovative Schools Have In Common by Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor, Plymouth Institute of Education A recent list of 13 innovative schools is interesting because it is so diverse. Clearly innovation and creativity is not one dimensional. Some of the schools on the list are considered innovative because of the way they use their learning…
50 Resources For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy
In this list, we’ve collected posters, apps, definitions, apps, tools, videos and strategies and more to help teachers use Bloom’s Taxonomy.
You Have To Create Understanding By Design
To achieve understanding as an educator, you have to help students ‘by design’ come to realizations that they own and appreciate as insightful.
What To Do On Twitter: 50 Ideas For Teachers
What To Do On Twitter: 50 Ideas For Teachers by TeachThought Staff This post has been updated and republished from a 2013 post. Send a link. Express an opinion. Follow innovative thought leaders. Stalk conversations between people you respect. Retweet a helpful link. Respond to someone else’s tweet. Have students use a tweet in a…
A Teacher Writes A Brutally Honest Letter To Parents & Politicians
A Teacher Writes A Brutally Honest Letter To Parents & Politicians by TeachThought Staff In an Open Letter to Oklahoma Voters and Lawmakers that’s been getting some national press, Oklahoma teacher Steven Wedel made a plea for sanity from parents and politicians to help children. The result was an absolute brutal and shockingly honest assessment of public education–well everywhere,…
What Minecraft Can Teach You About Pedagogy
What Minecraft Can Teach You About Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff Minecraft is a simple, clumsy-looking little game full of blocky graphics and unclear terms of play. It is essentially a giant sandbox of digital legos that players can do with what they wish–tear stuff down, dig holes, or build dizzying towers of complex design and…
9 Rules For Digital Citizenship
9 Rules For Digital Citizenship by TeachThought Staff Are there ‘rules’ for digital citizenship? And how are the unique from non-digital, ‘local’ citizenship? These are the questions the fine folks at ISTE tackled in the follow infographic that seeks to clarify ‘norms’ for citizenship in the digital age. We’ve offered a definition for digital citizenship in the past,…
12 Barriers To Innovation In Education
While funding is a barrier to innovation in education, failures of communication and imagination might be more significant.
Why The Best Teachers Change Their Minds
If you’re changing your mind—about inquiry, the ideal lesson template, or the best audiences for project-based learning products—that means you’re growing.
8 Characteristics Of A Great Teacher
Some teachers still have trouble showing vulnerability–especially if they feel unable to keep up with the incredible demands of teaching.
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5 Simple Ideas That Can Transform Your Teaching
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My Pedagogic Creed By John Dewey
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Me Learning: A Student-Centered Learning Model
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