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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

by Terry Heick. In fact, they probably won’t remember much at all, no matter how good you are at what you do. How about new behaviors and habits? Personal change? Or simply how you made them feel? Featured Teaching teaching' What’s The One Thing Will They Remember From Your Class?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

by Terry Heick and TeachThought Staff. This page was created and is updated by Terry Heick and TeachThought Staff, who you can contact directly with suggestions for terms, improved citations, corrections, or additions to the index. The study of teaching adults. Revisions: Persistently updated. ” (1).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Take a look at this question: How do modern novels represent the characteristics of humanity? Terry Heick, a former English teacher in Kentucky, had a surprising revelation when his eighth- and ninth-grade students quickly turned to Google. ’ ” Heick says. “That was a real eye-opener to me.”

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MARCH 21, 2015

25 Random Thoughts About Teaching & Learning. by Terry Heick. Every school and district needs a “Chief Change Officer.” That how we plan and teach today makes it pretty much impossible. The picture? It’s Spring, and I missed the sun. That this is hard to actuate in a class of 32.

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MAY 14, 2015

12 Rules Of Great Teaching. by Terry Heick. Recently, I’ve been thinking of the universal truths in teaching. The idea of “good teaching” is an idea we get at a variety of different ways, So then, here are some rules we might consider when making sense of this idea of what makes a teacher great.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

Brain Friendly Learning Spaces AJ Juliani writes: "As we look towards the 2014-2015 school year, one question continually jumps out to me as an educator: How do our learning spaces impact our students? Hello friends! I''ve always had a obsession about interior design and decorating. Teacher Librarians.what are our classrooms?

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AUGUST 16, 2015

by Terry Heick. As teachers, we’re all trying to better understand how people learn–not now they’re taught in terms of teaching strategies, but more so learning strategies–only not really strategies. Using “Universal Strategies” So how can this help you as an educator?

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JUNE 11, 2015

by Terry Heick. It’s got something to do with how schools frame it. As a matter of teaching and learning, reading is absolutely iconic. To teach reading requires us–teachers–to break it down into parts, usually somewhere along the fault lines of decoding and comprehension. How crazy is that?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

” by Terry Heick. Evaluated with a rational mind, this is neither good nor bad but only change–or even “progress.”. Performance on an assessment can be measured, but understanding cannot, and both fail to see the bigger picture: How can we help students see for themselves what’s worth understanding?

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APRIL 13, 2015

by Terry Heick. And let’s talk about how much we, as teachers, like to jump hurdles for others. In Evolving How We Plan , I pointed contentiously at the “unit” and “lesson” as impediments to personalized learning. Their teaching just isn’t ready for the data.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching. by Terry Heick. A little bit of technology doesn’t change much. That changes everything. 10 Ways Technology Has Changed Education: The Iconic Actions #edtech Should Disrupt. Can make things a little easier by automating them.

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MARCH 8, 2015

by Terry Heick. The Information Age is as full of change as it is spectacle, with access an integral component. The Information Age is as full of change as it is spectacle, with access an integral component. Modern smartphones have the chance to change all of this. With Smartphones. Can’t analyze. Can’t evaluate.

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JULY 12, 2015

6 Factors Of Gamification That Changes Students. I hope he knows how worth it his effort was. That camp experience has been in the back of my mind ever since I started teaching middle school. He analyzes how he made changes to the game through trial and error over the course of many semesters. by Nellie Mitchell.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

by Terry Heick. What makes “culture” interesting is how it both recognizes the individual while simultaneously allowing them to disappear into the whole again. Students aren’t demographics, and it’s murky at best to see how treating them that way has improved their lot, or our shared progress. Equilibrium.

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APRIL 26, 2015

by Terry Heick. Hack the mainframe, change the school grades, save prom, etc. So we should totally teach it in schools, right? Teaching Skills vs Teaching Content. Too often bits and pieces are tacked onto curriculum as yet another perfectly-reasonable-sounding-thing to teach.

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JULY 7, 2015

The Learning Innovation Cycle: How Disruption Creates Lasting Change. by Terry Heick. How exactly it produces change is less clear, but I thought I’d create a model to think about. ” I usually think of disruption as any change that forces itself substantially on existing power sets. .”

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APRIL 5, 2015

Equally important, as teaching professionals, we need to build, and for that we need every possible tool and working part in the child. No Student Is Unreachable. by Jeffrey Benson. As an educational elder with a lot of experience working with challenging students, I am often asked to consult to school teams. He does no work.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

by Terry Heick. Education is a system, but teaching and learning are not systems. That is, by how we connect with the people and spaces and ideas around us, we begin to make sense of ourselves. One changes the other. Where Does A Freed Mind Go? This presents a challenge. First, education. It is a shell.

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JUNE 28, 2015

What Happened When I Tried To Teach Alone. by Terry Heick. This time, I took a multi-faceted approach: I changed my diet, doubled an already active exercise routine, started hot yoga, began practice with both moment-by-moment mindfulness, and meditation. Created both discomfort and fatigue. Especially as an educator. .

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AUGUST 5, 2015

Wendell Berry And Preparing Students For “Good Work” by Terry Heick. The influence of Berry on my life–and thus inseparably from my teaching and learning–has been immeasurable. Today (August 5th) is Wendell Berry’s 81st birthday. But what about education? Which is the role of public education?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

by Terry Heick. Without either, teaching is an uphill battle. A Comprehensive Framework For Student Motivation. When researching student motivation and gamification late last year, I came across the most comprehensive gamification framework I’ve ever seen. 8 Core Drives Of Student Motivation. ” Educator takeaways?

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MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re interested in the possibility of video games for learning–that is, teaching and learning with video games to master both academic and non-academic content–than the following collection may be of interest to you. To select each of these games, we focused on 3 basic criteria: 1. Playability. Innovation.

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MARCH 30, 2021

by Terry Heick. At the time, I thought of it as a way to support students in understanding how to learn. Teaching students to think and learn isn’t simple–nor is it a matter of process. Which kind of makes sense–how can the student choose what to learn when they have no idea what’s out there?

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MAY 2, 2021

12 Things Every Lesson You Teach Should Have. by Terry Heick. I could’ve kept the list shorter and gotten closer to ‘every single lesson every single time,’ but didn’t see the point in that when the goal here is to help you think about what you plan and how you plan it. A clear objective.

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MAY 11, 2015

by Terry Heick. The iconic bully takes lunch money, grabbing pint-sized kids by their ankles, turning them upside down, and shaking out their change. But updating how we define bullying, what it looks like, where it happens, and some basic strategies for response may be a good first step. Of course, there is no “it.”

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AUGUST 9, 2015

by Terry Heick. Instead of a tool or learning model or 1400 word essay, how about a few quick ideas that might just save you this year–if you can keep from losing sight of them. You don’t need a million tools and strategies to teach well. People change, and students are people. Advice For Teachers?

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MAY 15, 2015

by Terry Heick. As social tools, when a society changes, so must its tools. How can we tell a good school from a bad one? As pieces in human ecologies, when one thing changes, everything else does as well. For example, when technology changes, it impacts the kinds of things we want and need.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

by Terry Heick. And this is a displacing and replacing that will only accelerate as re-conceptualizing of the craft of teaching in light of emerging technologies and global distinctions increases. Teachers As Drivers Of Change. What Happens When Teachers Connect. When teachers connect, a lot happens, subtle and overt.

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MARCH 17, 2015

by Terry Heick. Reflection is a fundamental tenet of learning; it is also, therefore, a fundamental part of teaching. But how and when it happens–and with whom–is less clear. I can see the craft of teaching as both a sequence of steps and the fulfillment of design. It is whole. Professional and people.

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MAY 21, 2015

by Terry Heick. (Ed These ideas aren’t just buzzwords or trendy edu-jargon but the kind of substance with the potential for lasting change. Tomorrow’s Learning Today: 7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future. Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post). So we’re taking a stand here.

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AUGUST 1, 2015

I saw how certain learning methods and perspectives could yield the type of student that regularly scores above the national average on an array of standardized tests and feels empowered as a lifelong learner. Self-directed learning changes everything. So how would this even work in today’s secondary school classroom?

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AUGUST 30, 2015

Writing Is Still How We Communicate. by Terry Heick. Among the biggest changes the Common Core Standards require is the shift in the burden of general literacy. How do we create, test, and validate a model? How do spatial relationships change over time? . Are patterns important in the world today?

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MARCH 30, 2021

by Terry Heick. Dewey is often quoted and referenced–in our best quotes about teaching , for example–but have you actually read the ideas for yourself? In that way, Dewey can be considered one of the pioneers for progressive teaching and learning. What did John Dewey believe? for example.). My Pedagogic Creed.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

by Terry Heick. Changing Our Thinking. How is it working? How has a gamified system of education worked for children as they seek to become whole human beings capable of good work, compassion for the people around them, and nuanced digital and physical citizenship? It’s Not About The Thinking. Use of data.

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MAY 17, 2015

by Terry Heick. There are strategies to promote curiosity in the classroom—even those that consider how the brain works. Ideally, teaching and learning wouldn’t benefit from having curiosity “added in,” but rather would fail completely without it. 4 Stages Of Curiosity & 20 Indicators That Reveal Them. Stage 4: Self.

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APRIL 10, 2015

by Terry Heick. Humanities as a term has become opaque and abstract, which can be seen in how casually we treat it in education (see the Common Core Standards). What system of ethics do I use, where does it come from, and how does it change? Redefining What It Means To Be Human In The Absence Of The Humanities.

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MAY 9, 2021

In addition to teaching, educators play a number of vital roles in students’ lives. This, in many ways, is classroom colonialism, and it can only be addressed through a very different approach to teaching and learning.” — Dr. Christopher Emdin. Teaching is about honor and goodness and mercy. .” — Penny Kittle.

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