Terry Heick – Page 3 – TeachThought

Teaching Students To See Quality

So what does quality have to do with learning? Quite a bit, it turns out. And it starts out with helping students understand what it means.

Sounds leads to words, words to ideas, ideas to perspectives, perspectives to behavioral change, and behavioral change to a better world.

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.’

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.

If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.

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