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5 Simple Ideas That Can Transform Your Teaching

The school year is a marathon, not a series of sprints. You have longer than you think to help students learn by transforming your teaching.

Key questions of Me learning include, “What’s worth understanding?” and, “What’s worth doing with what I come to understand?”

Teaching / March 15, 2021 / Terry Heick

Good teachers seek engaged students. Great teachers–somehow, someway–find out what makes students click, and use it.

Can we design a school that’s more inherently sustainable? Our 7 principles of sustainable learning focus on to place, limits, scale, & more.

Education research is great, but it has nothing on what you are able to see every day within your classroom.

Gradual Release of Responsibility is a strategy characterized by a sequence of learning activities that shift responsibility to the student.

If you want to be more aware of what gamification, these examples may be useful if for nothing else than to be more intentional in using it.

Can we teach critical thinking in schools? Of course we can. A better question: Are schools designed to teach children to think?

Gamification can clarify not just success and failure but the nuance of student performance in every step of the learning process.

Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.

There are many ways to help students think for themselves. Guide them to dynamic spaces characterized by people, thought, and creativity.

Education is both tired of change, and evaporating without it. Here are ways to future-proof your teaching to ‘evolve smarter,’ not ‘harder.’