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Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know

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

There’s no reason a ‘school’ can’t become a tech-infused place-based learning environment that focuses on literacy and civic participation.

Teaching / February 21, 2019 / Terry Heick

Backward design encourages you to plan for a destination not by anticipating but visualizing the end and planning backward from there.

Whether or not they’re accurate, how you’re perceived–and how your school, grade level, content area, and course are thought of–matters.

What Does Every Teacher Need In Order To Grow? by Terry Heick Teaching can do weird things to you. It

Apple set out to innovate textbooks and it just might work. But innovation in textbooks only results in innovative textbooks.

While funding one of several barriers to innovation in education, failures of communication and imagination might be more significant.

From asking questions to feeling a sense of progress, here’s a quick list of things that every student should do every day.

Teaching / January 17, 2019 / Terry Heick

We Need To Stop Making These Mistakes In Education by Terry Heick The context for this one is simple enough–what

Shifts to create the classroom of the future include a shift from academic standards to learning networks and single modalities to blended.

All of education may seem like it is trying to exert its will on your classroom. Let it push. Try slowing down. Growing things takes time.

In this alternative to letter grades, work is first graded and then, through revision and iteration, is gradually improved and ultimately curated.