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 For Teaching And Learning by TeachThought Staff In education, louder than the call for innovation, engagement, thought, or self-direction is the call to be research-based. In ...

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?

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?

What are the primary factors of academic performance? While literacy skills and background knowledge matter, so does transfer of understanding.

These aren’t single tools to try but news ways to think about how and why student learn. None of it is complicated—it just requires a shift in thinking.

Evaluate: Criticize, Reframe, Judge, Defend, Appraise, Value, Prioritize Plan, Grade, Reframe, Revise, Refine, Grade, Argue, Support, Decide, Re-design

In this alternative to letter grades, work is first graded and then, through revision and iteration, is gradually improved and ultimately curated.

For learning feedback, consider using the concept of a 'feedback sandwich' to guide your feedback: Compliment, Correct, Compliment.

It was already clear to me that students want to 'do well in school' for different reasons but now I could see a fuller continuum of student engagement.

During meaningful conversations, students are forced to be accountable for their positions, to listen, and analyze opposing perspectives and ideas.