What Teachers Hear When You Say ‘Accountability’ by Marc Tucker, @CtrEdEcon After 10 years of federal education policies based on test-based accountability, there has been no perceptible improvement in student performance among high school students (which, when you get right down to it, is what really matters) as a whole, or when the data are broken…
3 Simple Strategies For More Rigorous Instruction by Barbara Blackburn, author of Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word In this posting, we’ll look at options to increase the depth of your instruction. What you’ll notice throughout the activities is a shift to student ownership of learning, as well as the need to think at higher levels to…
5 Innovative Tools For Data-Based Teaching by Justin Mann, Geddit.com Teachers have always had their bag of tricks when it comes to understanding how students are doing in class. Good teachers can spot the clues that point to a struggling student, or one who isn’t challenged. Great teachers keep track of each student’s needs, and know…
Few understand what validity means in assessment and how it is determined. This confusion leads to various unhappy and important consequences.
Hattie’s effect sizes in ascending order are not recommendations, but rather a comprehensive synthesis of a huge amount of data.
Through Doodle 4 Google, students across the country are learning how professional creators harness and channel their imaginations.
The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because of it.
Classroom management is as much about instructional design and relationships as it is rules and discipline.
For starters, less is more. As you design curriculum and instruction, give students just enough to get them going, then get out of their way.
For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away.
The clearer I am about what I am saying and why, the more I may be blind to how unclear, confusing, or unhelpful the lecture is to a novice.
Fire needs three things–a spark, oxygen, and fuel. Without any one of those things, we can’t stoke the fire. It will refuse to burn.
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