Terrell Heick, Author at TeachThought

The Cognitive Biases List: A Visual Of 180+ Heuristics

Cognitive biases are tendencies to selectively search for or interpret data in a way that confirms one’s existing beliefs.

What is Diagnostic Teaching? Diagnostic teaching is a step-by-step, intentional process for pinpointing exactly why a student is struggling.

Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.

Literacy / April 11, 2019 / ela, Terry Heick

The reader, in fact, will feel about you, your subject, and your essay only what your written words themselves induce her to feel.

Opinion: Protect The Taxi Cab Industry From Innovation by Terry Heick We have to protect the taxicab industry from disruptive

Here are 50 ways teachers across content areas–and homeschooled learners too–can promote digital media literacy.

Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.

‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.

There’s no reason a ‘school’ can’t become a tech-infused place-based learning environment that focuses on literacy and civic participation.

What are the primary factors of academic performance? While literacy skills and background knowledge matter, so does motivation.

Teaching / February 21, 2019 / Terry Heick

Backward design encourages you to plan for a destination not by anticipating but visualizing the end and planning backward from there.

Whether or not they’re accurate, how you’re perceived–and how your school, grade level, content area, and course are thought of–matters.