8 Ways To Make Math More Fun For Students
Want to make math more fun for students? Support them by giving them space to ask questions and learn through play.
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30 Ways To Use Google Search For Critical Thinking In The Classroom
Here are 30 ways to use Google search in the classroom to help improve students' ability to self-direct the digital research search process.
3 Tips For Bringing Local Businesses Into Your High School Classroom
contributed by Anita Lamoureux In Gresham-Barlow School District in Oregon, we recently launched a pilot program that leverages partnerships with local industry to enhance our Career and Technical Education (CTE) ...
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers by Terry Heick Imagine the dogged pursuit of a proper clock-maker, day after day bound up in design and measurement and function and ...
50 Challenging Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students
50 Challenging Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students by Terry Heick Literacy is changing--not at its core necessarily, but certainly at its edges as it expands to include ...
It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom
It's Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom by Terry Heick Among the biggest changes of modern academic standards is the shift in the burden of general literacy. ...
16 Questions To Help Students Brainstorm Project-Based Learning
16 Questions To Help Students Brainstorm Project-Based Learning by Terry Heick We've written about inquiry-based learning in the past, as well as its mother project-based learning, and its more complex cousin self-directed learning. So ...
25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching Critical Thinking
25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching Critical Thinking by TeachThought Staff See also 10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking Critical Thinking As an organization, critical thinking is at the core of what ...
6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom's Spiraling is the process of starting first at lower levels of Bloom's--recalling, defining, explaining, etc.--and then progressively increasing the level of thinking.
12 Alternatives To Letter Grades In Education
12 Alternatives To Letter Grades In Education by Terry Heick Ed note: This post was originally published in November of 2012 and has been updated several times, most recently in ...
8 Needs For Project-Based Learning In The 21st Century
8 Needs For Project-Based Learning In The 21st Century by Terry Heick We recently offered a definition of project-based learning and looked at keys to designing Project-Based Learning. We also have ...
How To Take Cornell Notes
How To Take Cornell Notes Originally published in 2015; updated in October 2018 Form: Cornell Notes Purpose: The purpose of Cornell Notes is to distill complex text, arguments, etc. into a ...
25 Critical Thinking Apps For Extended Student Learning
25 Critical Thinking Apps For Extended Student Learning by TeachThought Staff Critical thinking apps aren't the sweet spot of mobile app design. Most of the more popular apps are focused ...
20 Tips To Promote A Self-Directed Classroom Culture
20 Tips To Promote A Self-Directed Classroom Culture contributed by opencolleges.edu It’s an age-old saying: "Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach a man to ...
Learning Is Complex; What Do We Know So Far?
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 ...
16 Things I Want To Hear My Students Say
16 Things I Want To Hear My Students Say by Terry Heick "Ohhh, now I get it." The iconic phrase that teachers value hearing. A sign that you've moved a ...
Too Much Sitting? 5 Movement Strategies That Get Students Thinking
Too Much Sitting? 5 Movement Strategies That Get Kids Thinking contributed by Kenny McKee Each day more research confirms the link between movement and learning. Brain researcher David Sousa claims ...
What Great Teachers Know About Their Students
Creating Student-Centered Learning Profiles: What Great Teachers Know About Their Students by TeachThought Staff This is part 2 of our #iteachthought series (because we refuse to say "back to school"--well, ...
