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What Is Cognitive Constructivism? –

Learning theory isn’t generally high on the list of practicing teachers. For starters, teachers are busy poring over the classic–or emerging–learning theories that can inform their teaching on a day-to-day basis. Secondly, much of K-12 pedagogy in the United States

What Role Does Empathy Play In Learning?

by Terry Heick So much talk about empathy in education recently. Why? What’s the big idea? The role of empathy in learning has to do with the flow of both information and creativity. A dialogic interaction with the world around

The Pedagogy Of John Dewey: A Summary

by TeachThought Staff What did John Dewey believe about education? What were his views on experiential and interactive learning and their role in teaching and learning? As always, there’s a lot to understand. John Dewey (1859–1952) developed extraordinarily influential educational

Is French Common in Dubai? –

Is French Common in Dubai? contributed by Lindsey Mayfield In Dubai, a cosmopolitan city known for its cultural diversity and economic dynamism, the French language has a distinct but relatively modest presence, overshadowed by the predominance of Arabic and English. 

Teaching Resources For Teaching Gifted And Talented Students

Resources For The Parents And Teachers Of Gifted And Talented Students by TeachThought Staff National Organizations and Advocacy National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC): Renowned organization offering resources, research, and advocacy for gifted education. They have a website with tip sheets,

40 Of The Most Commonly Misspelled Words –

Common misspellings often arise due to a variety of linguistic and cognitive factors. There are, of course, a range of reasons for this. Like other languages, the English language suffers from/has irregularities and exceptions to its spelling rules. Having borrowed

Four Ways To Support Grieving Students Through Writing –

Four Ways to Support Grieving Students Through Writing contributed by Brittany R. Collins Approximately 700,000 young people in the United States lost a parent during 2020-21, with the COVID-19 pandemic boosting bereavement rates—not only due to the virus, but to

Merging Metacognition And Citizenship

by Terrell Heick Ed note: This post parallels our self-directed learning model. Why should someone learn? While Paulo Freire, John Dewey, and others have provided compelling arguments for what might be the goal of education, learning, and education are not one

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 is just an opinion, but I hope not a radical one. To clarify why this

These are the 32 Habits That Make Thinkers

by Terry Heick The difference between students and learners is an important one. On the surface it’s a matter of tone and compliance, but it also has to do with purpose–why are they learning? How much of themselves are invested

Agricultural Development

What is Agriculture? Agriculture refers to a fundamental human activity, which i...

Population and Development

POPULATION STUDIES Is the general activities carried out for the purpose of acqu...

Study of Soil

CONCEPT OF SOIL AND SOIL PROFILE Soil appears very complex and thus differe...

Water Masses

GROUND WATER WATER CYCLE Rain falls on the earth surface in filtrates (soaks int...

Topic

The Dynamic-Earth And Consequence

THEORIES THEORY OF ISOSTASY Denudation has been going on the continents where to...

Position Behaviours And Structure Of The Earth

GLOBE Is the model of the earth Earth Is ball of rock partly covered by wat...

Photograph interpretation

Photograph are the true image pictures showing truly appearance of the earth’s...

Maps and map interpretation

What is a map? Map is a scaled conventional representation of the whole or any o...

Simple survey and mapping

INTRODUCTION TO SURVEYING Surveying is an art or a science of measuring and reco...

Field research techniques

Definitions of Research – Research is the systematic investigation into a...

Application of statistics in geography

STATISTICS Statistics is a branch that deals with every aspect of the data. Stat...

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