Creating Students That Solve Problems by TeachThought Staff The next time you are teaching a lesson, count how many questions students are asked. If the answer is too many, you are not alone. I often hear teachers complaining of the lack of initiative in their...
Teaching Human Rights: Resources, Benefits, And Guiding Questions contributed by Chris Buckley, Featured Teacher In The Speak Truth To Power Master Class Series When I am asked what I teach, my general response is not that I teach history or social studies; my days in...
contributed by Rob van Nood and Paul Monheimer My colleague and I took a constructionist approach to teaching the FAME project. Along the way, our middle school students tinkered, failed, learned, and created. Here’s how we did it and the tools we used. “What if this...
Why Creating A Culture Of Inquiry Is So Important by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD Imagine yourself sitting across from a mortgage broker sometime in the early 2000’s. The economy is riding high and you’ve decided to stake out your portion of...
13 Tips For Students Researching Through Google Search by TeachThought Staff Google Search offers as a universe of information and has thoroughly changed not just research but the very appearance of the accessibility of knowledge. In How Google Impacts The Way...
5 Strategies For Teaching About The Holocaust Through Inquiry contributed by Tyrone Shaw Effective teaching about the Holocaust requires asking students the right questions, and that is the beginning of any inquiry-based lesson. The good thing, too, is that many...
