Terry Heick – Page 9 – TeachThought

Teaching Critical Thinking Starts With The Student

Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding?

Challenges with privacy, cost, and using new tools in old learning models can make things worse for teachers and students, not better.

What do you want your students to remember most about you? Your class? What’s the enduring message you hope stays with them for a lifetime?

Good teaching is difficult and one of the biggest challenges is a lack of time. Let’s take a closer look at where your time is going.

Social-Emotional Learning promotes well-being while using the benefits of that well-being to promote academic and personal growth.

Many teachers don’t have the luxury of deciding what’s sustainable for them. In these cases, they somehow ‘survive’ or they quit.

One idea for evolving school? Well-being-focused systems of teaching and learning that emphasize reasoning and cognitive behavior.

What’s one crazy, moonshot idea that may never work in this plan–but if it did, it could change everything?