- hands-on activities
- Instructional activity in which students actively work with and manuipulate materials and objects in order to study a concept or solve problems.
- heterogeneous grouping
- The practice of mixing students of varying abilities, interests, or ages in academic classes. Heterogeneous classes may be formed school-wide or within classrooms where two to five students learn together.
- hidden curriculum
- The norms, values, and beliefs transmitted to students through educational practices and content.
- high-stakes testing
- Uses of standardized achievement tests that carry serious consequences for students and educators.
- higher order thinking
- Complex thinking that goes beyond basic recall of facts, such as evaluation and invention, enabling students to retain information and to apply problem-solving solutions to real-world problems.
- home schooling
- Education of a child in a home environment in which parents or legal guardians assume responsibility for instruction.
- homogeneous grouping
- Grouping students according to perceived ability, achievement, interests, or other characteristic.
K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education
