Students spent six weeks listening to, watching, developing, writing and eventually recording their own stories. The unit was a success; it sparked the young readers’ and writers’ storytelling abilities and offered lessons in empathy, courage and multi-modal literacy. “We certainly...
A shift away from DEI and cultural competence — which involves understanding and trying to respond to differences in children’s language, culture and home environment — could have a devastating effect at a time when more of both are needed...
A spokesman for the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees NAEP, said the science scores will be released later this summer, but denied that the lack of a commissioner is the obstacle. “The report building is proceeding so the naming...
by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’re interested supporters of any learning taxonomy. (We even created our own, the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy.) Learning taxonomies help us think about how learning happens, highlighting that there are many ways to frame thinking. Bloom’s Digital...
by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’ve described Bloom’s Taxonomy as “a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach and students learn.” Whether you’re designing instruction, evaluating an assessment, or observing a classroom, Bloom’s remains...
by Terry Heick Note: This has been updates from a 2018 version Just a quick post that’s self-explanatory enough: It’s almost #ElectionDay! Some questions for student critical thinking: What is the relationship between voting and democracy? How does critical thinking...
A Conversion Chart For Reading Level Measurement Tools by TeachThought Staff If you’ve used AR (Accelerated Reader) as a reading motivation tool to set goals and track progress, you’re undoubtedly aware of its ability to assess general reading levels as...
Nudging children to identify as teachers distributes authority and expertise in the classroom. When the teacher is the only one in the room with the knowledge, there is a bottleneck. We will see a line of children to the teacher’s...
The Education Department press office said it had no comment beyond what was disclosed in the legal brief. Education researchers, who are suing the Trump administration to restore all of its previous research and statistical activities, were not satisfied. Elizabeth...
They smiled. Clearly, Emma had a system in place that was helping her achieve in all the right areas. She was having a great start to the year. Our parent–teacher evening was just before the first half term, but there...
