Learning

6 Tips For Creating Effective Student Groups by TeachThought Staff Grouping students is easy; creating effective student groups is less so. The following infographic from Mia MacMeekin seeks to provide some ideas to help make…

100 Of The Best Blended Learning Resources For Teachers by TeachThought Staff The following is a compilation of some of our favorite blending learning resources for teachers in 2018 and 2019. Blended Learning Resources:…

Learn Anything: 50 Of The Most Popular Online Courses Of All-Time contributed by Class Central Class Central has thousands of reviews written by our users, and we were able to sort these courses by the Bayesian average of their…

What Every Student Needs by Terry Heick There is no perfect lesson, unit, or school any more than their can be a perfect song, flavor, or shade of blue. Every student is different. Every single intelligent, forgetful, smiling,…

5 Tools And Strategies That Support Personalized Learning by TeachThought Staff Personalized learning is something that many teachers strive for, but it can be easier to want it than make it happen. Personalization is best…

Teaching Art, Or Teaching To Think Like An Artist? by TeachThought Staff Be creative. Curious. Seek questions. Develop ideas. Play. These ideas are familiar to modern educators, as they represent a kind of polar opposite to the…

5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom's Taxonomy by Grant Wiggins & The TeachThought Staff Admit it--you only read the list of the six levels of the Taxonomy, not the whole book that explains each level and the rationale behind the…

8 Types Of Imagination by TeachThought Staff Imagination is critical to innovation and learning--but what exactly is it? Dr. Murray Hunter of the University of Malaysia Perlis explains that imagination is, in part, about…

Five Elements Of Experiential Learning: A Summary Of 'Freedom To Learn' by Jackie Gerstein, TeachThought PD I was painfully bored during my K-12 education. I looked forward to college anticipating that it would be different –…

Why Being Wrong Is Actually A Good Thing by Terry Heick Being wrong is only ‘bad’ if the consequences of that ‘wrong’ outweigh the benefits (and potential future benefits) of becoming right. David Deutsch wrote about this idea…

50 Ways To Use Bloom's Taxonomy In The Classroom by Terry Heick Bloom's Taxonomy is a powerful teaching and learning tool that can help you shape nearly everything that happens in your classroom. Why you would want to do this is…

10 Strategies To Make Learning Feel More Like A Game by TeachThought Staff We've talked about gamification quite a bit, which is different than game-based learning, if you'll recall. (The definition of gamification is the…

What Is Bloom's Taxonomy? A Definition For Teachers by TeachThought Staff In one sentence, Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach and students…

Learning Is Complex; What Do We Know So Far? contributed by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon The science of learning, discovering how people learn, as opposed to the philosophy of learning and education that goes back to Egyptian…

 Does This Help You Relax? 12 Of The Best ASMR Videos With No Talking by Terry Heick After years of not being able to focus (or sleep) without background noise of some kind (which led me to create a TeachThought-specific…

10 Tips For Parents New To Online Homeschooling contributed by Jennifer Smith Online Schools can present numerous benefits to students of all ages. For one, it offers them (and their parents) a flexible schedule. It also gives…

100 Things Students Can Create To Demonstrate What They Know  contributed by Ryan Schaaf, Notre Dame of Maryland University This has been updated and republished from a previous version When I was a high school student, I had the…

How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process by Terry Heick Gamification is simply the application of game-like mechanics to non-game 'things.' The big idea here is to encourage a desired behavior. In this way,…