You Have To Create Understanding By Design
To achieve understanding as an educator, you have to help students ‘by design’ come to realizations that they own and appreciate as insightful.
Critically Examining What You Teach
These are simple prompts that a teacher who has really thought through the course should be able to answer.
How To Use Essential Questions In Your Lesson Design
Inquiry by design, not mere teacher rhetorical questioning, makes an essential question come to life and go into depth.
7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback
Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.
What Close Reading Actually Means
The goal of close reading is to analyze the text and interpret why details–and the text itself–are significant.
Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text
In this post we consider the appropriate text complexity to use in order to help students develop text comprehension.
Experiential Learning: Hands-On Doesn’t Mean It’s Minds-On
Merely playing the game over and over need not cause understanding and transfer. It takes a deliberate processing of the game experience.
Why Item Analyses In Assessment Are So Important
Item analyses in assessment are important because they offer insight into what a student actually understands.
12 Mistakes Schools Make When Introducing The Next Big Thing
Well-meaning local change agents and schools continue to make mistakes in how Understanding by Design (UbD) is implemented.
Why The Common Core Will Ultimately Fail
l Common Core Will Ultimately Fail by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education The current strong backlash to the Standards is completely predictable. Any time there is a major push to reform an institution there will be a backlash. As we saw with Obamacare, the flaws become magnified and politicized; the supposed benefits seem to many not worth the…
Chasing The Definition Of An Academic Argument
Although many people think that an academic argument is a one-sided attempt at persuasion, it’s really more like a scientific paper.
What I Learned By Doing What I Ask Students To Do
Teachers shadowing students will quickly realize that sitting is exhausting, learning is often passive, and teachers are often irksome.
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