12 Alternatives To Letter Grades In Education
In this alternative to letter grades, work is first graded and then, through revision and iteration, is gradually improved and ultimately curated.
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5 Levels Of Student Engagement: A Continuum For Teaching
It was already clear that students want to ‘do well’ for different reasons but now I could see a fuller continuum of student engagement.
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Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
Video is a pedagogical goldmine. What ‘viewing comprehension strategies’ can students use during and after watching videos in class?
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50 Alternatives To Lecturing In The Classroom
From Accountable Talk to interactive RAFT Assignments, podcasting to debate, there are countless alternatives to lecturing.
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Learning Is The Ultimate Disruption
The work of culture is to know itself & hold on to what it deems valuable. Forgetfulness is ignorance. Learning is the ultimate disruption.
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Technology Is Now As Much A Part Of Learning As Reading & Writing
The technology students use today will be the worst they ever use. That’s a useful starting point for understanding education technology.
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How To Teach With The Concept Attainment Model
Concept Attainment is a ‘backward conceptualizing’ teaching strategy characterized by clarifying concepts by determining ‘conceptual rules.’
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What Does Understanding Look Like?
Understanding promotes the spontaneous, personal, and creative application of understanding in dynamic physical and digital environments.
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48 Critical Thinking Questions For Any Content Area
Critical thinking questions include, ‘Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?”
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20 Types Of Learning Journals That Help Students Think
A learning journal is an ongoing collection of writing done for the purpose of learning rather than the purpose of demonstrating learning.
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12 Of Our Favorite Articles About Assessment
We’ve gathered 12 of our favorite articles about assessment. They cover a variety of angles, from purpose to function to assessment.
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Critical Knowledge: 4 Domains More Important Than Academics
The idea here is to clarify the kinds of critical knowledge that create actual change in the lives of students and communities.
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How Can We Improve Education?
How can we improve education? Our current system is designed to publish common goals that drive our common actions and performance.
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How Teaching Is Changing: 15 Challenges For The Modern Teacher
A modern teacher has to demonstrate for students not how to solve problems, but why those problems should be solved.
