Questioning In The eLearning Environment by Rosa Fattahi, WizIQ As discussed in A Primer in Effective Questioning, Part I, it is important that traditional and eLearning teachers employ a variety of question types that address a range of intellectual skills. Questions should not only be used to assess student comprehension of the material, but also…
Those Who Can’t Teach implies that the field is full of professional failures who bring that non-performance to the classroom.
How Automated Tutoring Can Support Transition To The Common Core by Zacc Dukowitz, Learnbop.com As the majority of states in the U.S. transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), so far, test scores have plummeted. While the reality of exactly why is complicated, automated tutoring programs may be able to help, which is why…
Question stems can be used as thinking prompts for class discussions, prompting, and various forms of assessment.
The old way to be cool was to be plugged in and always-on. Digital reputation on point. More followers than people you follow. Respond to messages in seconds. The new cool? Total isolation, solitary confinement style. And it can be yours for just over $2000 US. Distraction-free academic interaction: the students, the text, and nothing…
At their core, MOOCs can speak to the best, altruistic nature of educators by allowing them to share their knowledge freely with the world.
Whereas differentiation is about adapting a curriculum, personalized learning involves adapting and creating a curriculum.
contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher Why Career & Technical Education Are Important “What do we do with this stuff we’re learning?” Career & Technical Education answers that question. At many schools, students learn higher-level subjects, but they might not learn where to apply the lessons. At a CTE school, applying the knowledge is…
Teachers don’t “give tests,” they “assess.” They don’t “go over it again,” they “remediate.” Simply put, jargon helps us be more specific.
How Good Teachers Decenter Themselves by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education As teachers we understandably believe that it is the ‘teaching’ that causes learning. But this is too egocentric a formulation. As I said in my previous post, the learner’s attempts to learn causes all learning. The teaching is a stimulus; the attempted learning (or lack of it) is the…
Nothing endures like love. So when a 96 year-old man, recently widowed from his wife of 73 years, read about a songwriting contest, in lieu of his complete lack of experience he felt moved to respond. The heart-breaking–and heart-warming–result, published on twentytwowords.com, can be seen below. Love wins.
Schools use data walls to identify students for interventions, visualize common trends in data, and set goals for where students should be.