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Teaching Students To See Quality

by Terry Heick Quality—you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is. But that’s self-contradictory. But some things are better than others,

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What Is Critical Reading? A Definition For Learning – TeachThought

by Terry Heick Critical reading is reading with the purpose of critical examination of the text and its ideas. To add a bit more to

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Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking

by Terry Heick As a culture, we have a thought crisis–namely, a harmful and enduring refusal and/or inability to think well and think critically. This

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Stages Of Cognitive Development – TeachThought

Piaget Learning Theory: Stages Of Cognitive Development by TeachThought Staff Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was a Swiss psychologist and one of the most influential figures in

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8 Strategies Your Teaching More Enjoyable This Year – TeachThought

by Terry Heick My wife is a schoolteacher, and recently I’ve been listening to her online meetings. And there have been a lot of them.

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6 Domains Of Cognition: The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy

by Terry Heick How can you tell if a student really understands something? They learn early on to play the game—tell the teacher and/or the

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Why Some Students Think They Dislike Reading

by Terry Heick We tend to teach reading in a very industrial way in the United States. We focus on giving kids ‘tools’ and ‘strategies’

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20 Teacher Tools To Create Online Assessments

20+ 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,

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Why Teaching Critical Thinking Starts With The Student

by Terry Heick The first step in helping students think for themselves just might be to help them see who they are and where they

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8 Of The Most Important Critical Thinking Skills – TeachThought

Critical thinking is the ongoing application of unbiased analysis in pursuit of objective truth. Although its name implies criticism, critical thinking is actually closer to