How Much Freedom Should A Teacher Have?
Where should there be obligation and where should there be freedom in choice of pedagogy, models, and curriculum?
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What Is Understanding?
Understanding: A Definition by Terry Heick Assessing understanding might be the most complex task an educator or academic institution is tasked with. Unfortunately, professional development gives a lower level of attention to developing quality assessments, training that is rarely commensurate with this complexity. The challenge of assessment is no less than figuring out what a…
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Education 3.0–Where Students Create Their Own Learning Experiences
Education 3.0 has many facets from technology tools to shifting roles for teachers. But more than anything else, it’s is about students.
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7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback
Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.
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3 Lasting Lessons For Teachers From Grant Wiggins
One of Grant Wiggins’ lasting lessons is that in order to transfer their learning, students need to understand “big ideas.”
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Why Emotion Is More Important Than Understanding
The need to belong, the desire to be understood, and the instinct to understand are universal human emotions that mean everything.
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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.
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A Depth Of Knowledge Rubric For Reading, Writing, And Math
Depth of Knowledge frameworks can be useful for planning curriculum, designing assessments, or making judgments about student reading, writing, and math.
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Transforming Education Starts In Your Classroom
Want To Transform Education? Start In Your Classroom. by Terry Heick If it’s a standards-based, outcomes-based, institutionally-centered (and nationally participative) game we want, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better combination than Understanding by Design units (i.e., Wiggins) anchored around power standards (e.g., Strong, Silver, Perini, Dufour) that are then delivered through differentiated instruction (i.e.,…
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The Best Teachers Don’t Do What They’re Told
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.
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The Trouble With Measuring Understanding
Measuring understanding might be the most complex thing teachers do. Unfortunately, PD gives little attention to making quality assessments.
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A Teacher’s Guide To Performance Assessment
There are many forms of performance tasks: short and long constructed response, drawings and videos, interview.
