Learning Resources From TeachThought: Grow With Us

How To Help Your Students Develop A Growth Mindset

How can you help your students develop a growth mindset? Ask them to add ‘yet’ to the end of their ‘I can’t do this’ statements.

What’s the difference between personalized & individualized learning? What matters is differentiating for what students need to achieve.

A feedback loop in learning is a cause-effect sequence where data is responded to based on recognition of an outcome.

Learning / May 3, 2020 / Science

Learning science is a dynamic, spiraling, evolving, inherently playful process that promotes creativity and critical thinking.

Empathy focuses on a mutual and shared emotional experience, whereas sympathy moves more swiftly from feeling with to feeling for.

Saying you’ve ‘seen homeschooling’ is like saying you’ve seen salad or photographs or the internet. Homeschooled in what way? Learning what and how?

Blended learning combines face-to-face teaching and online instruction. Ideally, each will complement the other by using its particular strength.

Killing a learner’s natural curiosity doesn’t happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in rare cases that isn’t long enough.

Ambition precedes curiosity. Without wanting to change or grow, curiosity is simply a momentary neurological reaction to stimuli.

The goal of the model isn’t content knowledge (though it should produce that), but rather something closer to wisdom–learning how to learn.

Creativity in the classroom is another form of play, and play is universally important to each individual’s sense of joy and well-being.

Effective teaching about the Holocaust requires asking students the right questions, and that is the beginning of any inquiry-based lesson.