What Teachers Can Change
What are the things that teachers can change? What if your goal was to change the arc of your students’ lives?
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Terry Heick
The Elements Of A Digital Classroom
In a digital classroom, teachers can become worried that no ‘real learning’ is happening or that they’ve somehow failed to plan sufficiently.
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5 Learning Strategies That Make Students Curious
Ambition precedes curiosity. Without wanting to change or grow, curiosity is simply a momentary neurological reaction to stimuli.
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The Selflessness Of Pedagogy: What Every Teacher Gives
The ‘giving’ of yourself implies that you give your whole self to the act of teaching–that you merge your ‘self’ and your pedagogy.
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10 Ways Teaching Has Changed In The Last 10 Years
Even as apps have fallen in favor, mobility is the new standard. Information, communication, search—mobility matters in the modern world.
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10 Statements To Help Students Understand Wisdom
Wisdom is knowing what’s worth understanding, understanding the value of ideas, and always placing knowing in the context of not knowing
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20 Strategies To Get The Best Work From Your Students
To get the best work from a student, they need to create their own standards for quality academic work–ideally alongside you, as a teacher.
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How To Add Rigor To Anything
In rigorous tasks, learners will often need to synthesize data, positions, or theories from multiple sources or perspectives.
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Why Should I Go To School? 20 Reasons To Learn In A Changing World
The reasons to learn given at the end of the list are better than those at the beginning, & all are adequate ‘purposes of school.’
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Why Teachers Need One Another
Who gets to say you’re doing a good job as a teacher? When you go to bed at night, whose approval are you really looking for?
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The Problem With Most School Mission Statements
Why do we create school mission statements alongside the planets & stars, then insist on data and strategies grounded in research & reality?
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The Two Minds Of An Educator
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
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