How To Teach With The Concept Attainment Model
by TeachThought Staff
What is Concept Attainment?
How can it be used to promote critical thinking?
What grade levels is appropriate for?

TEST Education’s Curious Fascination With Uniformity
by Terry HeickEd note: This post has been updated and republished from an early 2013 post.
The Common Core standards aren’t awful.
They are wordy and dry and a bit confusing.

10 Teacher Resources For Lesson Planning Templates & Tools

The Difference Between Updating & Rebooting Your Classroom by Terry Heick As they do in other fields full of human beings, money, and systems, discussions about teaching and learning usually tend towards two extremes. Either there...

27 Ways To Respond When Students Don’t Pay Attention Our initial reaction when seeing the following infographic from Mia MacMeekin was to think about instructional design rather than classroom management.

A Teacher Makes 1500 Educational Decisions A Day Teaching has been compared to rocket science, but usually in jest, as in it’s not rocket science. But any teacher worth their salt–and thus aware of the incredible...

3 Lasting Lessons For Teachers From Grant Wiggins
by Jay McTighe
Ed note: If you’re interested in hearing a (podcast) conversation between Jay McTighe and Grant’s wife, Denise Wilbur, along with ASCD Faculty member Donnell Gregory, head over to ASCD.

TEST What’s Best For The Kids
by Terry Heick
What’s best for the kids.
I remember hearing this phrase when I was handed a towering stack of fluency probes that represented about 3-4 hours of “in addition to” work per week.

TEST 4 Principles Of Student-Centered Learning by TeachThought Staff A Definition of Student-Centered Learning In our view, student-centered learning is a process of learning that puts the needs of the students over the conveniences of planning,...

Why Some Teachers Are Against Technology In Education by Terry Heick Some educators are pretty pissed off. Recently I’ve noticed an increasing number of ed folks enthusiastically question education technology—and do so with enough sarcasm and...

3 Statements That Describe Rigorous Assessment by Barbara Blackburn, author of Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word As we’ve discussed 7 myths about rigor, and the characteristics of rigor in curriculum, the final component is rigorous assessment.

The German state of Saarland, bordering France, says it wants the next generation to be bilingual as it moves to attract more French business.

Struggling Students? Apathetic Performance? Add More Rigor, Stat Are your students struggling? Are test scores in the dumps? Do you spend all of your time researching, planning, teaching, and refining, to continued mediocre returns on...

Fle : Les Pronoms CompléMents by linda on Indulgy.com.

Laurie's insight: NGSS and Math Common Core require us to help students find the best tools for solving problems. This matrix leads teachers to those important goals.