Project-Based Learning: Inside The Life Of A Project by Terry Heick At some point, I saw “the life of a project” diagram on pinterest, and thought it did a brilliant job of capturing the emotion of teaching and learning through projects. So I took the idea, attributed to Maureen McHugh, and applied it to education. You…
Vocabulary is a matter of meaning and degrees of meaning, which means it cannot be the ‘job’ of a single content area or teacher.
Direct Instruction, Modeling, Immersion, and Varied Interactions are four of the many keys to developing academic vocabulary in students.
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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…
Students love music. It’s engaging, and offers an accessible and authentic format to access ideas and draw standards-related teaching from.
Our fascination with uniformity has something to do with our constant need to “scale” everything across billions and billions of people.
Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a sequence of words: Sally and her seashells, Peter and his peppers.
I was moved to share Bryan Stevenson’s “We Need To Talk About An Injustice,” because of its authenticity, utility, and value for teachers.
The included list highlights some of the best study apps out there, from stalwarts like Evernote and Any.Do to others like CamScanner & Zite.
Although many people think that an academic argument is a one-sided attempt at persuasion, it’s really more like a scientific paper.
Here is a simple question that, asked with the right tone, can provide a lifeline to any student in any context.What do you think?