
Teaching Students To See Quality
- By Michigan Digital News
- . October 13, 2025
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,

What Is Critical Reading? A Definition For Learning – TeachThought
- By Michigan Digital News
- . October 12, 2025
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

Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking
- By Michigan Digital News
- . October 10, 2025
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

Stages Of Cognitive Development – TeachThought
- By Michigan Digital News
- . October 9, 2025
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

8 Strategies Your Teaching More Enjoyable This Year – TeachThought
- By Michigan Digital News
- . October 8, 2025
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.

6 Domains Of Cognition: The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy
- By Michigan Digital News
- . October 8, 2025
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

Why Some Students Think They Dislike Reading
- By Michigan Digital News
- . October 6, 2025
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’

20 Teacher Tools To Create Online Assessments
- By Michigan Digital News
- . October 3, 2025
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,

Why Teaching Critical Thinking Starts With The Student
- By Michigan Digital News
- . October 3, 2025
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

8 Of The Most Important Critical Thinking Skills – TeachThought
- By Michigan Digital News
- . September 23, 2025
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