19 Reading Response Questions That Work With Most Texts
Reading Response Questions For Self-Guided Response by Terry Heick Though I’ve been busy with TeachThought for the last four years, my original ‘trade’ was teaching English (literature, writing, digital media, etc.) I was recently going through an...
Teaching Social Justice: 25 Books To Encourage Students To Change The World
Teaching Social Justice: 25 Books To Encourage Students To Change The World by Ashley McCann What are the kinds of ideas that convince people that they can change the world? What about students–what kinds of inspiration or knowledge or confidence or vision do...
Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book by Terry Heick You can’t watch a video like you read a book; the modalities couldn’t be much more different. On the surface level a video uses light, color, sound, and moving images, with the...
The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 103 Critical Thinking Your Way Through The News
Drew Perkins talks with Jens Erik Gould, Editor in Chief of The Knife Media, about how they use critical thinking to analyze the spin, slant, and logic of news media. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: The Knife Media – web site, Facebook, Twitter...
A Writing Strategy That Works For Every Student, Every Time
A Writing Strategy That Works For Every Student, Every Time by Terry Heick Writing is difficult to teach, if for no other reason than it is also difficult to do. Put simply, writing is the documentation of thinking. Because it’s been done in so many different...
New This Year to Grow 18: Differentiation in PBL!
TeachThought PD
- What Close Reading Actually Means
- The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 124 Teachers Going Gradeless
- 6 Signs You’re Creating Confident Students
- What Great Teachers Know About Their Students
- How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process
- Why Students Don’t Do Their Homework–And What You Can Do About It
- The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 123 Moving Education from Post-Modern to Metamodern
- How To Deal With A Difficult Parent
- The Power Of Place: How Where Students Live Affects What They Need To Know
- 4 Characteristics Of Critical Digital Pedagogy
