Browsing: Terry Heick

by Terry Heick In his essay Two Minds, Wendell Berry, unsurprisingly enough, offers up two tones of thought produced by…

by Terry Heick Quality—you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is. But that’s self-contradictory. But some…

by Terry Heick How can you tell if a student really understands something? They learn early on to play the…

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

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

Teach Students To Think Irrationally by Terry Heick Formal learning is a humbling thing. As planners, designers, executors, and general…

by Terry Heick Grading problems are one of the most urgent bugaboos of good teaching. Grading can take an extraordinary…

by Terry Heick Every few months, I see an article making the rounds that critical thinking isn’t a skill and…

by Terry Heick Humility is an interesting starting point for learning. In an era of media that is digital, social,…

Knowledge is limited. Knowledge deficits are unlimited. Knowing something–all of the things you don’t know collectively is a form of…