Kurt Vonnegut Describes The Shape Of A Story
Every story, Vonnegut playfully asserts, can be ‘shaped’ on a Y-axis of Good Fortune & Ill Fortune extended along the X-axis of Time.
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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Why Apps Should Replace Textbooks In Your Classroom
Maybe apps can do everything a textbook can, but with the agility to enable sustained personalized instruction.
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State Growth Contribution: Student Growth Percentiles–What?
Does the idea of a Median Student Growth Percentile sound intimidating? No worries, there’s a PowerPoint for that.
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David Foster Wallace On What It Means To Think
“‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.”–David Foster Wallace
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How To Reach–And Change–Your Students
Assuming our goal is to make a difference in the lives of others, we might consider the legacy we leave in the minds of students.
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Helping Students Tell Their Story Through Social Media
Human beings are storytellers by nature. Children especially love to hear stories, but aren’t always so keen on telling their own.
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10 Things Every Great School Should Be
Every great school should not be ‘accountable,’ but rather ‘judged’ by the inclinations, tendencies, habits, and behavior of its students.
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What Is Understanding?
Understanding: A Definition by Terry Heick Assessing understanding might be the most complex task an educator or academic institution is tasked with. Unfortunately, professional development gives a lower level of attention to developing quality assessments, training that is rarely commensurate with this complexity. The challenge of assessment is no less than figuring out what a…
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The Illusion Of The Widget
We should be cautious not to view learners as little widgets in an education machine that wheezes and chuffs and spits out educated learners.
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100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking
What was your mindset going in to the activity? What do you discover about yourself during the learning process?
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Don’t Be A Teacher Bully
Okay, 100 words on the idea of a “teacher bully”….It’s easier to become one than you’d think. Teaching isn’t easy–stresses your time, patience, and emotional reserves. Some days, it seems certain students want to watch the world burn.But no matter how well-designed learning experiences are, the tone of your interactions with students can deflate a classroom…
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5 Ways To Help Students Ask Better Questions
How To Help Students Ask Better Questions There’s nothing I care more about than students, and there are few things I think can serve a student better than being able to ask the right question at the right time. In “Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers,” I said that “Questioning is the art of…
