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32 Research-Based Instructional Strategies

32 Research-Based Instructional Strategies

TeachThought Staff Oct 24, 2025 9 min read

These 32 research-based instructional strategies include Setting Objectives and Reinforcing Effort/Providing Recognition.

What Is Critical Reading

What Is Critical Reading? A Definition For Learning

Terry Heick Oct 12, 2025 8 min read

Critical reading is reading with the purpose of critical examination of the text and its implicit and explicit themes and ideas.

Best Formative Assessment Tools For Teachers

18 Of The Best Formative Assessment Tools For Digital Exit Tickets

TeachThought Staff Nov 5, 2025 9 min read

18 of the best formative assessment tools for teachers–to glean data, take snapshots of understanding, create digital exit slips, and more.

6 strategies for teaching with Bloom's taxonomy

6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy

Terry Heick Oct 16, 2025 4 min read

Bloom’s Spiraling is the process of starting first at lower levels of Bloom’s–recalling, defining, explaining, etc.–and then progressively increasing the level of thinking.

TeachThought Understanding Taxonomy

6 Domains Of Cognition: The Heick Learning Taxonomy

Terry Heick Oct 8, 2025 6 min read

The Heick Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.

5 strategies for incorporating SEL in the classroom

5 Strategies For Incorporating Social Emotional Learning Into Your Classroom

TeachThought Staff Oct 20, 2025 5 min read

These five strategies social emotional learning strategies will not only benefit students, but can also be beneficial to teachers, too.

Alternatives To What'd You Learn In School Today?

Alternatives To ‘How Was School?”

Terry Heick Nov 4, 2025 4 min read

“What did you learn in school today?” It’s easy to resort to cliches when talking to kids about school. Here are some alternatives.

What Is 3 Before Me Teaching Strategy

What Is 3 Before Me?

TeachThought Staff Oct 22, 2025 4 min read

‘3 Before Me’ requires that when students are stuck, they must first try to solve the problem in 3 different ways before asking the teacher.

Teacher jumping in the air next to mental health tips

15 Mental Health Tips For Teachers

Terry Heick Oct 15, 2025 7 min read

One mental health tip for teachers? As much as possible, set clear boundaries between school and home life.

Piagets Stages Of Cognitive Develpment

Piaget Learning Theory: Stages Of Cognitive Development

TeachThought Staff Oct 9, 2025 10 min read

Piaget’s stages of cognitive development include the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stage.

correcting the deficit in critical thinking

Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking

Terry Heick Oct 10, 2025 10 min read

We can address a deficit of critical thinking by embedding into the architecture of education. This can be accomplished in any number of ways.

teaching students to see quality

Teaching Students To See Quality

Terry Heick Oct 13, 2025 5 min read

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.

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