Technology Tools for Interactive Learning contributed by Edelyn Bontuyan What makes traditional learning click?  In-person learning.  As a teacher, your students look up to you to impart knowledge in a format and manner they can absorb fast and easy. How do you achieve that? You conduct Q&A sessions, set up discussions, conduct practicals, lead peer teaching sessions, and more.  But here comes a question you didn’t expect. How do you replicate these in-person connections when you are required to teach remotely? Numerous institutions are switching to online teaching, con ..read more

Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. When we think about having a diverse classroom we think of ethnicity, race, gender, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation. It is easy for us to forget about socioeconomic status. This paper explores the impact socioeconomic status has on student learning in order for teachers to have a better understanding of their diverse classroom. Keywords: socioeconomic status, informer choice, late-emerging reading ..read more

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 Ph.D. in 1942. “He was Research Assistant at Princeton (1940-1941), Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University (1945-1950), Visiting Professor and thereafter appointed Professor of Theor ..read more

contributed by Barbara R. Blackburn Differentiation is a popular concept in today’s schools. After all, it makes sense. We’d all love to provide instruction tailored to every student’s needs. However, intentionally or accidentally, many teachers simply lower the rigor for struggling students. When we do that regularly, students always stay behind. In some cases, they are never even allowed to work at a higher level, which isn’t fair to those students. From my perspective, rigor is not just ‘harder work.’ In Rigor is Not a Four-Letter Word, I define rigor as creating an environment in whic ..read more

Though it is perhaps not intuitive, Richland et al. (2009) found that error generation is positively correlated to enhanced memory.  The post What Is Mistake Literacy? The Research Of Learning Through Failure appeared first on TeachThought ..read more

Tips for improving family engagement through home-school communication include goal setting and consistent communication. The post Tips For Improving Family Engagement Through School-Home Communication appeared first on TeachThought ..read more

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3 Knowledge Domains For Teaching And Learning by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t […] The post 3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student appeared first on TeachThought ..read more

by TeachThought Staff Do not limit a child to your own learning, for they were born for another time. R […] The post A Powerful, One-Sentence Argument For Progressive Learning appeared first on TeachThought ..read more

Circle practice in the classroom involves sitting in a circle and engaging in age-approriate meaningful dialogue. The post Getting Started Using Talking Circles In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought ..read more