Terry Heick – Page 7 – TeachThought

Don’t Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why

Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.

Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of writing.

SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).

The quality of an idea and the collective quality of the effects of that idea are two very different things.

Incrementalism is the process of change by small degrees. Gradualism. This is also the process education has chosen for improvement.

The world is changing — let schools become something that works for children, something that visibly improves the arc of their lives.

Creativity is a 21st-century teaching and learning currency–and the best way to make sure it happens is to give points for it.

So you’ve been told to play outside, and you’re not sure what to do. There’s no electricity, no Wi-Fi, and the sun’s glaring on your iPad.