Teaching Critical Thinking Starts With The Student

Teaching Critical Thinking Starts With The Student

ByTerry HeickOct 3, 2025

Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding?

Teacher tools to create online assessments

20 Teacher Tools To Create Online Assessments [Updated]

ByTeachThought StaffOct 3, 2025

Teacher tools to create online assessments: Google Forms for quick quizzes, Socrative for live checks, and Edulastic for standards-aligned tests.

Grade level conversion chart

A Conversion Chart For Reading Level Measurement Tools

ByTeachThought StaffOct 3, 2025

Reading level measurements aren’t perfect and neither are the conversions but as a general guide, it’s a handy tool to keep around.

Alan watts forgive yourself quote

Alan Watts: Forgive Yourself

Terry HeickSep 15, 20255 min read

“Compassion for yourself is letting the stones fall and seeing that you are no longer the one who stumbled — you are the one who learned.”

Teacher productivty tools

30 Teacher Productivity Tools To Streamline Planning And Teaching

TeachThought StaffSep 13, 202512 min read

A list of 30 teacher productivity tools that streamline planning, collaboration, grading, and automation. Includes Trello, Notion, Google Docs.

Two minds by wendell berry

An Excerpt Of ‘Two Minds’ By Wendell Berry

Terry HeickSep 12, 20253 min read

“Obviously we need to use our intelligence. But how much intelligence have we got?”

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock text

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock Text

TeachThought StaffSep 12, 20256 min read

“In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.”

create a curriculum that questions the purpose of knowledge

Create A Curriculum That Questions The Purpose Of Knowledge

Terry HeickSep 12, 20255 min read

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

36 Ways To Use Wearable Technology In The Classroom

36 Ways To Use Wearable Technology In The Classroom

TeachThought StaffSep 12, 20254 min read

We’re not quite at the stage of being cyborgs, but wearable technology is growing, and the number and type of devices is also increasing.

Critical Thinking Is A Mindset

Critical Thinking Is A Mindset

Terry HeickSep 11, 20255 min read

Critical thinking is certainly a ‘skill’ but when possessed as a mindset–a playful and humble willingness–it shifts from a labor to an art.

Margret Atwood quote on stories

Quotes About Identity And Who You Are

TeachThought StaffSep 11, 20255 min read

“We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.” — Wendell Berry

My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey

My Pedagogic Creed By John Dewey

TeachThought StaffSep 10, 202523 min read

Dewey believed that the psychological and social sides are related and that “education cannot be regarded as a compromise between the two.”

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28 Critical Thinking Question Stems For Any Content Area

TeachThought StaffSep 9, 20253 min read

The purpose of these critical thinking question stems is to help students practice willingness to sit with an idea and struggle wonderfully.