Are You Pushing Or Pulling Students In Your Classroom?
Are You Pushing Or Pulling Students In Your Classroom? by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD At the risk of characterizing teaching and learning in a factory context let’s face it, classrooms are a kind of marketplace system with an exchange of ideas and...
Teaching Art, Or Teaching To Think Like An Artist?
Teaching Art, Or Teaching To Think Like An Artist? by TeachThought Staff Be creative. Curious. Seek questions. Develop ideas. Play. These ideas are familiar to modern educators, as they represent a kind of polar opposite to the standardized and industrialized form...
25 Of The Most Misunderstood Ideas In Education
25 Of The Most Misunderstood Ideas In Education by Terry Heick There’s a lot of misunderstanding in education, and that makes sense because it’s an ‘industry’ with tremendous external pressure to change but an extraordinary kind of inertia...
John Dewey: We must prepare our students…for their world.’
John Dewey: We must prepare our students…for their world.’ by Terry Heick “The world is moving at a tremendous rate. No one knows where. We must prepare our children not for the world of the past, not for our world, but for their world–the...
What Is Confirmation Bias?
Confirmation Bias Really Kills Thinking by Terry Heick What is confirmation bias? Broadly speaking, confirmation bias is the tendency of people to overvalue data that supports their own beliefs. It usually works something like this. Whether based on a fear (e.g.,...Open Workshop – Developing Sustainable PBL Click to Register
TeachThought PD
- Ed Leaders, Want To Implement PBL? Attend “Leadership PBL” October 18th
- 15 Common Mistakes Teachers Make Teaching With Technology
- The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 176 How PBL Works At The University Level
- 8 Lessons About Education I Learned From SXSWEdu
- The Role Of The Teacher In The Near-Future Classroom
- Great Teaching Means Letting Go
- 8 Characteristics Of A Great Teacher
- Innovation Often Means Teaching Against The Grain
- 7 Teaching Secrets For Long-Term Growth
- 12 Common Reasons Students Don’t Read & What You Can Do About It