Tag: Essential

Rethinking grading in project-based learning can support and encourage students by clarifying complexity and rewarding nuance of understanding.

By asking students to leave a little learning on a chair by the door on the way out of the classoom, exit slips are an easy way to reflect on ...

Killing a learner's natural curiosity doesn't happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in some rare cases even that isn't long enough.

Does the item require a passage, or a graphic? If so, is all the necessary information provided, and is it appropriate and accessible to the student?

Critical reading is a matter of gathering knowledge, understanding context and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.

Second screen learning provides access to personalized content while the teacher guides and facilitates the core of the lesson.

Each colored block has an example of a learning objective corresponding with each combination of the cognitive process and knowledge dimensions.

Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies include non-linguistic representations, generating and testing hypotheses, and summarizing and note-taking.

Every classroom is different—and that’s good because every student and teacher is, too. But are there any common elements that all classrooms should share?

To use the Feynman Technique, practice explaining a concept to others as simply as possible. Make it simple, then make it simple again.

Questions are indicators of curiosity. They are not only a kind of evidence and practice of curiosity but can be also used as an assessment tool.

What if a class consisted of words that led to information that whirled into blended realms of creativity set up just for students, created by students?