Terry Heick Archives

The Role Of The Teacher In The Near-Future Classroom

By deciding what stays & what goes in the near-future classroom, what’s worth understanding & what’s not, teachers have quite a bit of power.

The most fundamental idea in public education–the infinite interdependence of living that scrutiny of schools misses entirely.

So many trends in learning are repackaged approaches teachers have seen before, and when that trend appears different, its results are not.

Technology / August 4, 2019 / Terry Heick

Change is a key characteristic of the 21st century–a cause & effect. And change in education technology specifically can impact your teaching.

Every classroom is as different as the person creating it. But are there any common elements that every modern classroom should share?

What is Diagnostic Teaching? Diagnostic teaching is a step-by-step, intentional process for pinpointing exactly why a student is struggling.

Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.

Literacy / April 11, 2019 / ela, Terry Heick

The reader, in fact, will feel about you, your subject, and your essay only what your written words themselves induce her to feel.

Opinion: Protect The Taxi Cab Industry From Innovation by Terry Heick We have to protect the taxicab industry from disruptive

Here are 50 ways teachers across content areas–and homeschooled learners too–can promote digital media literacy.

Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.

‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.