A 6 Step Process For Teaching Argument Analysis by Terry Heick How “basic” this is depends on who your audience is, but this is more of an overview to help students systematically look at an argument piece by piece–and these are the pieces. This is one of the organizers I use as a teacher–there’s a…
Connected Learning is an answer to three key shifts as society evolves to a 21st century networked society.
Using The iPad To Promote Ambition In Students Part of the the power of mobile learning technology is a matter of location–that is, the lap of the student. In a 1:1 classroom, each student has access (to the world itself) through the internet. The internet is a place of endless publishing, conversation, time-wasting, discovery, peril, recreation, and…
I can offer a fairly sobering picture of what ails the American high school, drawn from our student survey.
Middle school students are an interesting bunch of emerging identities, and a varied assortment of readiness, knowledge, and maturity.
Are Midterms Really Necessary In A Climate Of Assessment? by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher It’s time for midterms. I hate midterms. They take up so much time–several days of review, a week of administering, and then all the correcting. To top it off, they place students in a high-anxiety environment. I feel like I’m…
There are so many ways to create a spark in the middle grades classroom, but an achievement unit can be a great way to begin the year!
This model is built around the concept of self-knowledge–better understanding one’s self and that to inform one’s interactions with the world.
Like related learning trends, mobile learning is one of the least understood movements in modern education.
Student voice and choice, publishing, and a driving question are some of the essential ingredients of project-based learning.
Hands-On Games To Build Thinking Skills In Students by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed., radteach.com Executive Functions (EF) are the higher-level brain functions–e.g., planning, analyzing, evaluating, and designing–that education seems to covet most in students. But are there ways we can promote EF function and literacy–that is, ability and awareness of that ability–in students? Below are two games that…
The First Day Of School In A 9th Grade Classroom That Runs Like Clockwork: A Video Of Classroom Management We don’t talk much about classroom management here at TeachThought. (Well, sometimes we do.) First and foremost, our mission is to both think about and enable better ways of learning in highly-connected, 21st century society: critical thinking,…
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