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12 Back To School Teaching Resources For The Best Year Ever
12 Back To School Teaching Resources For The Best Year Ever by TeachThought Staff What are the best back to school teaching resources for 2019? Well, it will take us another 12 months to establish that, but we thought we'd get a head start by looking back. The...
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Learning Is Complex; What Do We Know So Far?
Learning Is Complex; What Do We Know So Far? contributed by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon The science of learning, discovering how people learn, as opposed to the philosophy of learning and education that goes back to Egyptian times, can be sheeted back to around the...
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16 Things I Want To Hear My Students Say
16 Things I Want To Hear My Students Say by Terry Heick "Ohhh, now I get it." The iconic phrase that teachers value hearing. A sign that you've moved a student from not understanding to understanding. Into the light. A lot is implied in this phrase, not the least of...
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5 Ways To Engage Reluctant Learners
5 Ways To Engage Reluctant Learners contributed by Kristina J. Doubet, Ph.D and Jessica A. Hockett, Ph.D. We’ve all been there. Slumped bodies, rolled eyes, defiant words, and off-task behaviors announce (not-so-subtly) that instruction isn’t “working.” So what can...
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What Does ‘Critical Thinking’ Mean?
What Does 'Critical Thinking' Mean? by Terry Heick What does 'critical thinking' mean? Well, that depends on who you ask. For educators, as a term critical thinking is similar to words like democracy, global, and organic: You hear people use them all the time, but no...
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6 Messages Every Student Should Hear On The First Day Of School
6 Messages Every Student Should Hear On The First Day Of School by Terry Heick & Jackie Gerstein Contact Us to bring Jackie Gerstein and other TeachThought professionals to your school today. I took an excerpt of a recent post by Jackie, 6 Activities I Use To Build...
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