As far as the children on Team 1 know, their team has always been in first place. Always the best at this. These children didn’t do anything themselves to earn this, and in fact, some of them aren’t very good at fixing run-on sentences, but their team is so far ahead that it doesn’t matter. They would have to suddenly start losing many, many games in a row before there was any threat of them not being in first place.
When Schools Seek Data Instead Of Understanding or The Time My School Focused On ‘Answering Strategies’ by Terry Heick, Director, TeachThought Ed note: I wrote this post in 2013 and updated it again in 2020 for formatting, clarity, and updated links. Two...
What If Great Minds Designed Our Schools?contributed by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D, American Institute For Learning & Human Development The long-awaited test results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) are in, and although there’s something...
It’s Time To Think Differently About Homeschooling by Terry Heick The widespread impact of COVID-19 on the world is forcing everyone to reconsider–well, everything. While it’s true that not everyone can work from home and learn from home–nor...
How To Make A Student Give Up Terry Heick Years ago (in a post I recently updated), I talked about how to kill a student’s curiosity. I thought maybe I could follow up with some quick thoughts on how to make a student give up should that become useful for...
Flipping Lesson Design: Moving The Learning Objective To The End by TeachThought Staff There would be few teachers haven’t been advised to publish lesson objectives at the beginning of every lesson. After all, this is a signal for students where the learning is going,...
