by Alex Terego | Oct 11, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
FOR THOSE WHO TEACH IN SCHOOL OR HAVE CHILDREN IN SCHOOL CLICK HERE FOR MUST-SEE DOCUMENTARIES ON WHY CHANGE IS SO URGENT. THEN WATCH THE SEVEN MINUTE TUTORIAL ON HOW YOU CAN BEGIN TO TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO THINK...
by Alex Terego | Oct 11, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
Questions are the answer to our schools’ problems. Let students find out for themselves. #makeamericathinkagain See for yourself how students answered the following 7 important questions using the Terego Method© for critical thinking: Why Does Geography Matter? Why...
by Alex Terego | Oct 11, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
THE UNINTENDED MISSION US VOTERS GAVE OUR SCHOOLS. There are fifty million students in the USA. Surveys by Gallup discovered that 55% of high school students are “psychologically disengaged from school work.” Please read that sentence twice. That’s...
by Alex Terego | Oct 11, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
Once you have read this post please forward it to your state governor’s office. Improving school performance is one of the best investments a governor can make to improve the economic well-being of their state. If all fifty states had improved their student outcomes...
by Alex Terego | Oct 11, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
Finland regularly tops the of academic performance tables worldwide. Its schools are the envy of the developed world. It is studied but not emulated. Its ability to produce high academic results in children who do not start formal schooling until the age of seven,...
by Alex Terego | Oct 11, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
MANAGING CHANGE: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION AS THE ENGINE OF CONTINUOUS INNOVATION. If we want our schools to improve they must be organized for constant change. “For a hospital—or a school or any other community organization—to discharge its social function we must be able...
by Alex Terego | Oct 11, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
COGNITIVE WRITING. There are two components to writing; no matter whether it is a report, essay, letter, memorandum or something more ambitious such as a proposal, thesis, a plan or even a book – Message and Style. The message is by far the more important of the...
by Alex Terego | May 2, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
If you are a Teacher, or a beneficiary of Teaching, you intuitively know its importance and value. But have you ever systematically analyzed Teaching’s strategic purpose; its top-most goal? You might well ask why should I understand the top-most goal – the strategic –...
by Alex Terego | May 2, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
Force-Multiplication Is An Ancient Tactic. Our Teachers Should Use It. Teamwork is one such force-multiplier: and it works. We have all watched enthralled at displays of coordinated teamwork, especially when each member of a sports team fulfills their individual role...
by Alex Terego | May 2, 2017 | Alex Terego Teacher's Blog
Introduction. Motivation is the key to all human activities. Stable people are only motivated by two factors: Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Since Epicurus in the third century B.C. we have known that nature has placed us under two masters: Pleasure and Pain....
