Want To Become A Better Teacher? Try Slowing Down

Want To Become A Better Teacher? Try Slowing Down

Jan 1, 2019 | Teaching

Want To Become A Better Teacher? Try Slowing Downby Terry HeickThe gift of my fifth year of teaching was patience.Every year something new occurs to me as an educator, and for year five it was the insurmountable scale of process. This was partly a response to...
Stop Saying Learning Styles Don’t Work

Stop Saying Learning Styles Don’t Work

Dec 18, 2018 | Teaching

Stop Saying Learning Styles Don’t Workby Terry HeickTwo myths I continue to see more and more of over the last couple of years involve learning styles and Depth of Knowledge frameworks.The growing consensus seems to be that each has been ‘proven...
6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy

6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy

Dec 17, 2018 | Teaching

6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomyby TeachThought StaffBloom’s Taxonomy can be a powerful tool to transform teaching and learning.By design, it focuses attention away from content and instruction, and instead emphasizes the “cognitive...
25 Personality Qualities Not Measured By Tests

25 Personality Qualities Not Measured By Tests

Dec 10, 2018 | Teaching

Can A Test Measure This? 25 Personality Qualities Not Measured By Testsby TeachThought StaffWho knew a vertical sliver of paper, stamped with little bubbles and otherwise boringly plain and harmless, could become such a contentious issue in education?After all, the...