Terry Heick – Page 3 – TeachThought

14 Ways To Help Students Build Confidence

‘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.

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