Good Credit, Bad Credit: 3 Ways Credit Scores Can Affect Students
For better or for worse, we live in a credit-driven economy. Here are ways bad credit scores can affect students.
Helping Students Fail: A Framework
Helping students fail is about thinking like a scientist, farmer, designer, or CEO–failing gives the data needed to proceed.
How To Teach With The Concept Attainment Model
Concept Attainment is a ‘backward conceptualizing’ teaching strategy characterized by clarifying concepts by determining ‘conceptual rules.’
Stop Defining Learning By The Technology Used To Make It Happen
Stop Defining Learning By The Technology Used To Make It Happen by Terry Heick Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or…
5 Tips To Help Students Arrive At Their Own Understandings
Initially, in your teaching, you may want to practice aiming only for one Understanding per unit to get a feel for the kind of groundwork.
5 Common Challenges Of Analytics Reporting
Despite the promise of analytics reporting, many products turn out to be expensive goose chases. Here are 5 issues to focus on.v
Making Technology Transitions Less Scary: 8 Keys To Success
It’s easy to think that implementing a new technology tool is only about making the technology work, but it is so much more.
Start Small: A Wendell Berry Commencement Address
“What we need, obviously, is a more intelligent–which is to say, a more accurate–description of the problem.” — Wendell Berry
4 Principles Of Student-Centered Learning
Student-centered learning puts the needs of the students over the conveniences of planning, policy, and procedure.
Are We Teaching Geometry Backwards To Children?
Are Early Childhood Educators Teaching Geometry Backwards? by Dennis Pierce Summary: A recent webinar explains why it makes more sense to teach children about three-dimensional figures before they learn about two-dimensional shapes. Traditionally, young children are taught about two-dimensional shapes such as circles, squares, and triangles before they learn about three-dimensional figures such as spheres, cubes,…
What Does Understanding Look Like?
Understanding promotes the spontaneous, personal, and creative application of understanding in dynamic physical and digital environments.
50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think
Using the right question at the right time can not evaluate understanding but can help students think about what they think.
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