by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education What is close reading? As I said in my previous blog post, whatever it is it differs from a personal response to the text. Here is what the Common Core ELA Standards…
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Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general discussions taking…
Academic Standards: Breaking Whole Things Into Broken Bits
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education In the just-released Math Publisher’s Criteria document on the Common Core Standards, the authors say this about (bad) curricular decision-making: “’Fragmenting the Standards into individual standards, or individual bits of standards…
5 Myths About Standardized Test Preparation You Should Avoid
by Grant Wiggins, authenticeducation.org April is test-prep month (apparently). So, what better use of this blog than to provide harried readers with some test-prep tips? But beware: the tips I am going to provide are very…
The Difference Between Learning Strategies And Skills
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D., AuthenticEducation.org The Difference Between Learning Strategies And Skills Strategy noun, plural strat·e·gies. The science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements…
How To Create A Rubric That Does What You Want It To
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D., Authentic Education How To Create A Rubric That Does What You Want It To Just what is a rubric? And why do we call it that? A rubric is a set of…
A Four-Phase Process For Implementing Essential Questions
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, AuthenticEducation.org We had a delightful visit to The School of the Future in New York City the other day. Lots of engaged kids, a great blend of instruction and constructivist work, and an obvious intellectual culture….
Teacher Planning Doesn’t Have To Stifle Creativity In Schools
by Grant Wiggins, Ph. D, Authenticeducation A recent query via Twitter asked a question we often hear: isn’t UbD (or any planning process) antithetical to such approaches as project-based learning and inquiry-based learning, since you…
The Inherent Reductionism Of Educational Policy: Good Ideas Gone Wrong
By Grant Wiggins, Ph.D Stupidification (n): 1. A deadly illness in which perfectly good ideas and processes are killed as a result of thoughtless interpretation and implementation. 2. The reducing of intricate issues and processes to…
Good Schools: Minding The Test Without The Panic
Editor’s Preface: As TeachThought grows, we are trying to include a consistently more diverse set of voices, authority, and expertise. This is what brought us to partner with Grant Wiggins to begin offering his personal…
14 Questions To Guide Your Curriculum Mapping And Lesson Design
by Grant Wiggins How teachers plan – I think this is one of the more interesting ‘black boxes’ in education. There are few studies of it, yet it is clearly one of the most vital…
31 Of The Most Influential Books About Education Ever Printed
by Grant Wiggins With the holidays soon upon us, I thought it appropriate to provide a list of what are arguably the most historically influential books in education, as we ponder gifts for colleagues, friends…
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