Tag: Essential

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.

One way to provide effective feedback for learning is a 'feedback sandwich' to structure your feedback: Compliment, Correct, Compliment.

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

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

From Accountable Talk to interactive RAFT Assignments, podcasting to debate, there are countless alternatives to lecturing.

Knowledge demands change faster than every other part of education: Curriculum, assessment, insgtruction--even education technology.

A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.

The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.

Letter grades don't mean what you think they mean. In fact, they can actually fail to communicate important truths about your child's learning.