Education

  What Is Cognitive Dissonance? A Definition For Teaching Understanding Cognitive Dissonance: A Psychological Framework for Growth and Learning As human beings, we strive for consistency–and alignment between their thoughts, beliefs, and actions.  When an inconsistency arises—when beliefs and behaviors...

Standing for Critical Thinking and Progress by Terrell Heick At TeachThought, we have always focused on promoting critical thinking cross for use in ‘human’ applications–namely, people (i.e., education stakeholders) and places (i.e., communities). Our mission has been apolitical by design—centered...

Creative writing is a challenge for many students, often because they can’t come up with anything to write about. That’s why we love picture writing prompts. Each one sparks the imagination and helps young writers jump right into crafting a...

With a little time left before school is officially back in, you’ve (hopefully) been layering on the sunscreen, grabbing UPF rated hats, and throwing on some decent coverups. But have quality sunglasses made it into the mix? After all, protecting...

President Trump campaigned on the idea of dismantling the Department of Education (DOE). In February, he put out an executive order to shrink the department. The implementation of the initial executive order had been stalled in the courts. It was...

One of the biggest challenges teachers face—especially in the early weeks of the school year—is building real relationships with students. You know, the kind that turn a group of strangers into a classroom family. My first principal once told me,...

Few challenges in education are as pervasive (or misunderstood) as supporting students with trauma. According to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, by age 16, nearly two-thirds of children in the United States will have experienced at least one potentially...

Teaching Is Human Work. Systems Aren’t Built for That. Teaching Is Human Work. Systems Aren’t Built for That. Education is structured as a system—standardized, measured, and scaled. But learning doesn’t work that way. And teaching? Teaching is human work—improvised, emotional,...

Selected Timeline of Educational Technology (2000–2025) 2000–2003 Digital tools begin to enter classrooms, led by interactive whiteboards and early online platforms like Blackboard. The groundwork is laid for the shift from analog to digital teaching methods. SMART Boards begin replacing...

by Terry Heick This post has been updated from a version published in 2013 Good teaching is a major undertaking. Make no mistake–teaching has never been easy. But as we come upon 2014, as a profession teaching is increasingly characterized...