November 18, 2025 | Updated November 15, 2025 by TeachThought Staff Recently I came across this interesting article: Shifting from Pedagogy to Heutagogy and whilst espousing all contained…
Read more Innovation Often Means Teaching Against The Grain – TeachThoughtby Terry Heick You care but it’s a tired cliche–limps out of your mouth, barely alive: “How was school?” You might use a slight variation like, “What’d you…
Read more What Did You Learn In School Today? 44 Alternativescontributed by Meg Price, the ei experience Social-emotional learning (SEL) by definition is a process for learning life skills, including how to deal with oneself, others, and relationships,…
Read more Social Emotional Learning Strategies For The Classroomby Terry Heick The first step in helping students think for themselves just might be to help them see who they are and where they are and what…
Read more Why Teaching Critical Thinking Starts With The Student20+ Teacher Tools To Create Online Assessments (2025) Build quick checks, quizzes, exams, and performance tasks with the classroom-ready tools below. For broader teaching stacks, see Teacher Productivity…
Read more 20 Teacher Tools To Create Online AssessmentsEducators and students at all levels are using design thinking to create solutions for real-world problems. Whether you’re new to the concept or looking for fresh ideas, this…
Read more 45 Design Thinking Resources For Teachers And Studentsby Terry Heick I first encountered the 40/40/40 rule years ago while skimming one of those giant (and indispensable) 400 page Understanding by Design tomes. The question was…
Read more Which Content Is Most Important? The 40/40/40 Ruleby Terry Heick I was speaking (tweeting) with Mark Barnes tonight, and he mentioned the idea of challenging existing forms and practices. And then someone tweeted the above image–a…
Read more The Most Dangerous Phrase In Educationby TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t mean we’re all suddenly omnipotent cyborgs, nor do we all become mindless social media addicts…
Read more 3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Studentby Terry Heick I’ve been thinking of the kinds of questions I consider when planning a project–or planning a unit when students plan a project on their own.…
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