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.’
How Much Freedom Should A Teacher Have?
Where should there be obligation and where should there be freedom in choice of pedagogy, models, and curriculum?
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…
Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know
‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.
What Students Do Better Than Teachers
Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.
What Is Really, Truly ‘Best For The Kids’?
What Is Really, Truly ‘Best For The Kids’? by Terry Heick What’s best for the kids. I remember hearing this phrase when I was handed a towering stack of fluency probes that represented about 3-4 hours of “in addition to” work per week. I wasn’t against the idea behind it all (supporting the literacy of…
20 Tips For A More Organized Classroom
Rather than pass out papers to the students all day, or try to ensure they receive important notes, invest in a mailbox for the classroom.
How To Play Outside: 50 Things For ‘Digital Kids’ To Do
You interact with ‘outside’ different than a computer or tablet. There are no download times, no notifications bars, and when people want you, they yell your name and make eye contact with you and this can be unsettling at first.
A Teacher Makes 1500 Educational Decisions A Day
A teacher makes over 1500 educational decisions every school day, a constant juggle of manager, content holder, master communicator, and support system.
A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks
This Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy mashes digital tasks like podcasting, blogging, networking, and bookmarking with the stalwart learning tool.
Why Teacher Staff Meetings Suck–And How To Make Them Better
Bring TeachThought Professional Development To Your School! Why Teacher Staff Meetings Suck–And How To Make Them Better by Terry Heick Time for a staff meeting? Need an idea? Something that engages teachers? Shake things up a bit? Start the year off right? Lessee. Maybe you group teachers somehow–something cool. By birth month or favorite Jimmy…
13 Standards For A Near-Future School
13 Standards For A Near-Future School by Terry Heick Today, an “unconnected classroom”—that is, one without social components, digital media output, authentic and highly visible school-to-school and school-to-community functions, and personal learning for each student through mobile and adaptive technology for each student—is seen as appropiately cautious–which is why some teachers sometimes seem against technology…
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