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Teaching is hard. 16 Ways To Reduce Your Teacher Workload by Terry Heick There are many ways to reduce your teacher workload–to work smarter and not...
by TeachThought Staff Reflection prompts are usually for students so reflection prompts for teachers aren’t something you see every day. The big idea is simple enough:...
10 Simple Icebreakers For Elementary Students contributed by Julie Dunn Crawford How about some simple icebreakers for kids? Elementary school-age students are a unique mix of...
by TeachThought Staff We’ve looked at icebreakers for kids–elementary school students, for example. How about another of an easy to use, fun, and fairly quick/zero-prep team-building...
When Schools Seek Data Instead Of Understanding or The Time My School Focused On ‘Answering Strategies’ by Terry Heick, Director, TeachThought Ed note: I wrote this...
by Terry Heick Teacher morale isn’t a popular topic, and that makes sense on the surface. Teachers are professionals, like engineers, doctors, farmers or business leaders,...
contributed by Lauren Ayer, M.Ed. Bullying. Zero tolerance policy. Targeting on social media. School violence. Active Shooter. These are words commonly heard in education today. As...
by Beckie Stobaugh, TeachThought PD Workshop Facilitator Contact TeachThought Professional Development to bring Beckie to your school! As a new principal, I sat at my desk reviewing classroom...
by Terry Heick How can you help students see their own progress? And use that to motivate them? Encouragement mechanics–a kind of gamification–is one approach. And...
by Terry Heick In all of my years of teaching, I can count on one hand the number of ‘difficult parents’ I had. Note, I don’t...