Terry Heick Archives

When Schools And Parents Don’t Talk

Communities don’t understand teaching and learning? Education doesn’t know what communities really need? This seems like an opportunity.

This doesn’t mean we won’t teach math or reading in the future. However, we might reframe what we teach and how and why we teach it.

‘Believing in students’ isn’t enough–they have to have sufficient knowledge or experience with ideas and skills to ‘do well in school.’

Education / February 21, 2024 / Terry Heick

New ideas, often in the shape of ‘fads,’ are, at best, distractions. It just might be that education already has more than enough new ideas.

Project-based learning needs in the 21st century include socialization, elegant curation, research, pivot points, and other considerations.

The relationship between learning goals & empathy may be unclear. What and why we choose to study are deeply human pursuits.

It’s an extraordinary amount of work to design precise and personalized assessments that illuminate pathways forward for individual students.

Teaching / January 7, 2024 / Terry Heick

How can you teach critical thinking? This framework offers a way to integrate critical thinking in your classroom.

One obvious way to promote inquiry learning in your classroom is to design lessons and units that benefit from, promote, or require it.

Teaching through PBL can benefit greatly from planning ahead. Here are 25 questions to guide teaching with project-based learning.

Disruption in general is about unsettling, often thought of in terms of chaos. Disruptive collaboration is working together to force change.

A micro-goal of the ‘Inside-Out’ School is a new kind of ‘intelligence’ where the macro-effect is healthier communities and citizenship.