How To Play Outside: 50 Things For ‘Digital Kids’ To Do

Aug 23, 2022 | Fun

How To Play Outside: 50 Things For ‘Digital Kids’ To Do by Terry Heick So you’ve been told to go outside, and you’re not sure what to do. Of course, you’re not happy about it. There’s no electricity outside, no Wi-Fi, and the sun’s glare on your iPad...

How To Kill Learner Curiosity In 12 Easy Steps

Aug 22, 2019 | Teaching, Fun

How To Kill Learner Curiosity In 12 Easy Steps by Terry Heick Killing a learner’s natural curiosity doesn’t happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in some rare cases even that isn’t long enough. Learning environments focused on...

How Students Are Like Cats

Mar 9, 2019 | Fun, Teaching

by Terry Heick Students can be a lot like cats. This occurred to me recently when teaching a group of 8th graders about the wonders of the preposition. Cats are curious, aloof little prima donnas capable of great feats of athleticism and laziness. They have their own...

What An Episode Of King Of The Hill Taught Me About Good Teaching

Feb 6, 2019 | Teaching, Fun

What An Episode Of King Of The Hill Taught Me About Good Teaching by Matthew Byars There’s an episode of the animated TV show King of the Hill in which Hank, the curmudgeonly, old-fashioned father of the family, becomes an emergency substitute shop teacher at his son...

HS Teacher Responds To YouTuber Jake Paul’s Video Dissing Teachers

May 25, 2018 | Fun

HS Teacher Responds To YouTuber Jake Paul’s Video Dissing Teachers by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD Let’s be clear, school hasn’t always been engaging and empowering for students but as I’ve said many times, teachers are passionate...

27 Things Teachers (Have To) Do Well

Feb 23, 2018 | Fun

27 Things Teachers (Have To) Do Well by TeachThought Staff What’s a teacher? What kinds of things should a 21st century be able to do?  How about with an iPad? What’s the purpose of school? These are the kinds of questions we like to try to tackle here at...