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What Close Reading Actually Means
by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought's approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. What is close reading? As I said...
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The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 124 Teachers Going Gradeless
The TeachThought Podcast Episode 124: Teachers Going Gradeless by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD Drew Perkins talks with Arthur Chiaravalli, teacher and editor of Teachers Going Gradeless, about teaching and assessing with an eye towards going gradeless....
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6 Signs You’re Creating Confident Students
Are You Creating Confident Students? by Terry Heick One approach to great teaching is facilitation: decentering yourself. Standing to the side, out of the students' way, and moving to more of a facilitative role of teaching. And one critical ingredient in such an...
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What Great Teachers Know About Their Students
Creating Student-Centered Learning Profiles: What Great Teachers Know About Their Students by TeachThought Staff For Professional Development or consulting around this or other ideas you read about on TeachThought, contact us. This is part 2 of our #iteachthought...
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How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process
How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process by Terry Heick Gamification is simply the application of game-like mechanics to non-game 'things.' The big idea here is to encourage a desired behavior. In this way, 'gamification' amounts to installing...
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Why Students Don’t Do Their Homework–And What You Can Do About It
Why Students Don't Do Their Homework--And What You Can Do About It by Dr. Jennifer Davis Bowman ‘That was homework?’ ‘That’s due today?’ ‘But... it was the weekend.’ We hear a lot of stuff when students don’t do their homework. Our cup runneth over with FBI-proof,...
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