Education

by Terry Heick Note: This has been updates from a 2018 version Just a quick post that’s self-explanatory enough: It’s…

A Conversion Chart For Reading Level Measurement Tools by TeachThought Staff If you’ve used AR (Accelerated Reader) as a reading…

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’ve described Bloom’s Taxonomy as “a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless…

Teach Students To Think Irrationally by Terry Heick Formal learning is a humbling thing. As planners, designers, executors, and general…

by TeachThought Staff Bloom’s Taxonomy’s verbs–also known as power verbs or thinking verbs–are extraordinarily powerful instructional planning tools. In fact,…

If correctly prepared for, a Socratic seminar can be a powerful catalyst for social learning. Many teachers we know have…

by TeachThought Staff The activities below are designed to be simple, flexible, and fun, making them perfect for learners of…

by TeachThought Staff What makes up a classroom? Is it the space? A room, for example? Is it the purpose?…

by TeachThought Staff There is a difference between gamification and game-based learning, and this post focuses on the latter. Essentially,…

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’re interested supporters of any learning taxonomy. (We even created our own, the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy.)…