Education
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6 Nonverbal Ways Students Engage In The Classroom
Some students walk into class ready to talk. Others enter quietly, holding their backpack close, scanning the room before taking a seat. For many multilingual learners and cautious children, spoken language comes last. Before words, they communicate through posture, gaze, proximity, hands, and small actions. These signals often go unnoticed, and silence gets interpreted as “shy,” “behind,” or “not participating.”…
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Recognition Is Not Retrieval: Solving The Illusion Of Student Preparedness
contributed by Mike Brown, education researcher at preppool. Every educator has seen it. A thoughtful, engaged student studies diligently, participates in class discussions, completes assignments on time—and then underperforms on the first major assessment. The disappointment is visible. Sometimes the teacher feels it just as strongly as the student. The instinctive explanations are familiar: anxiety, distraction, poor time management, lack…
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Supporting Teachers to Prevent Burnout and Finish the School Year Strong
contributed by Vivian Ivey, Principal, Aloma High School, Orlando, FL It’s no surprise that teachers are facing growing pressures. They engage with diverse students, each bringing their own unique backgrounds, life experiences and personalities. In these potentially challenging circumstances, teachers often need support to prevent burnout, especially when facing personal hardships outside the classroom or navigating classroom conflicts. With 26…
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15 Self-Guided Reading Responses For Non-Fiction Texts
by TeachThought Curricula Curricula Format If you’d like to purchase printable reading response cards to use in the classroom, you can do so at our TeachersPayTeachers Store. You can find the resource show here–> non-fiction reading responses. In the ELA classroom, literacy involves decoding a text and then analyzing it for meaning, implicit and explicit themes. It also requires examining…
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Why Did That Student Fail? A Diagnostic Approach To Teaching
by Terry Heick When students struggle in school, it can be for a variety of reasons. From their grasp of content and literacy skills to their engagement level to behavior and organizational issues, to teacher actions, to the proverbial ‘stuff going on at home,’ the possibilities are maddeningly endless. The following 8-step process is a valuable tool for me as…
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20 SEL Writing Prompts For Middle School Grades 6-8
These prompts are drawn from 50 Days of SEL & Metacognitive Writing Prompts for Middle School, a resource that includes a full set of prompts across all six domains along with a student self-reflection rubric and implementation guide. You can also find Metacognitive Prompts. as well. Social Navigation Describe a time when you had to work with someone whose approach…
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Richard Feynman On Knowing Versus Understanding
Richard Feynman On Knowing Versus Understanding by TeachThought Staff Who is Richard Feynman? Richard Feynman, born in 1918, was a theoretical physicist whose work in quantum mechanics earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. According to nobelprize.org, Feynman obtained his B.Sc. in 1939 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and studied “at Princeton University, where he obtained his…
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26 Sentence Stems For Higher-Level Conversation In The Classroom
by Terry Heick Meaningful conversation can make learning more personal, immediate, and emotional. During meaningful conversations, students are forced to be accountable for their positions, to listen, to analyze opposing perspectives, and to adapt their thinking on the fly. There are many popular strategies for these kinds of conversations, each with slightly unique rules and applications. Among them are Socrative…
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Assuming The Best: The Power Of Teaching Through Positive Assumption
by Terry Heick Always assume the best in students; at worst, assume there’s more to know. If they fail, assume they tried and want another chance. Assume they weren’t aware of what they weren’t aware of or that they don’t understand the scale or effects of the failure. If they break a rule, assume they weren’t aware of the rule.…
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Bad News: A Game About The ‘Success’ Of Fake News
by Terry Heick Want to help students learn to think critically about ‘fake news’? A simple, browser-based game could help. What is Bad News? Bad News is a simple tool to help students understand ‘fake news,’ the (modern?) phenomenon of misinformation and ‘content as news’ propagated, at least in part, by the rise of digital and social media. (You can…
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