15 Reflection Strategies To Help Students Retain What You Just Taught Them
By asking students to leave a little learning on a chair by the door on the way out of the classoom, exit slips are an easy way to reflect on ...
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How To Kill Learner Curiosity In 12 Easy Steps
Killing a learner's natural curiosity doesn't happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in some rare cases even that isn't long enough.
10 Tips For Creating More Effective Multiple-Choice Questions
Does the item require a passage, or a graphic? If so, is all the necessary information provided, and is it appropriate and accessible to the student?
Critical Reading: 50 Sentence Stems To Help Students Talk About What They Read
Critical reading is a matter of gathering knowledge, understanding context and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.
The Sync Teaching Method: A Blended Approach To Self-Directed Learning
Second screen learning provides access to personalized content while the teacher guides and facilitates the core of the lesson.
A 3-Dimensional Model Of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Each colored block has an example of a learning objective corresponding with each combination of the cognitive process and knowledge dimensions.
Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies For Teaching And Learning
Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies For Teaching And Learning by TeachThought Staff In education, louder than the call for innovation, engagement, thought, or self-direction is the call to be research-based. In ...
10 Strategies To Promote Curiosity In Learning
Questions are indicators of curiosity. They are not only a kind of evidence and practice of curiosity but can be also used as an assessment tool.
7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future
These aren’t single tools to try but news ways to think about how and why student learn. None of it is complicated—it just requires a shift in thinking.
100+ Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking
Evaluate: Criticize, Reframe, Judge, Defend, Appraise, Value, Prioritize Plan, Grade, Reframe, Revise, Refine, Grade, Argue, Support, Decide, Re-design
20 Ways To Provide Effective Feedback For Learning
For learning feedback, consider using the concept of a 'feedback sandwich' to guide your feedback: Compliment, Correct, Compliment.
5 Levels Of Student Engagement: A Continuum For Teaching
It was already clear to me that students want to 'do well in school' for different reasons but now I could see a fuller continuum of student engagement.
8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions
A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.
6 Domains Of Cognition: The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy
6 Domains Of Cognition: The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy by Terry Heick How can you tell if a student really understands something? They learn early on to play the game—tell the ...
32 Research-Based Instructional Strategies
These 32 research-based instructional strategies include Setting Objectives and Reinforcing Effort/Providing Recognition.
Becoming Innovative: 15 New Ideas Every Teacher Should Try
Looking for new and innovative ideas for your teaching? Here are 15 examples to get you started.
Critically Examining What You Teach
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him ...
The Pedagogy Of John Dewey: A Summary
John Dewey emphasized inquiry and the social context of learning. At the turn of the 20th-Century, these were radical ideas.
