Tag: Grant Wiggins

5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom’s Taxonomy

Many educators have a mistaken view of the Bloom’s Taxonomy and the levels in it, as the following errors suggest.

31 Of The Most Influential Books About Education [Updated]

Grant WigginsDec 8, 2021

Note that there are no books about education on the list from 1990 – present.  Too early to make the call, in…

10 Conditions For Self-Sustaining Learning In The Classroom

Grant WigginsJul 4, 2021

One condition: There is no single, obvious, or superficial solution path – yet, the task is ‘doable.’

27 Characteristics Of Authentic Assessment

Grant WigginsMar 29, 2018

An authentic assessment is meant to focus on the impact of one’s work in real or realistic contexts.

5 Tips To Help Students Arrive At Their Own…

Grant WigginsNov 12, 2017

Initially, in your teaching, you may want to practice aiming only for one Understanding per unit to get a feel for the…

8 Ways To Help Students Improve Their Academic Reading

TeachThought StaffJul 22, 2017

What is ‘academic reading’? And do my students know exactly what to do when they struggle with it both in and outside…

Transfer Of Understanding In Math And Reading

Grant WigginsJul 17, 2017

The problem: transfer of understanding is poor. Students do not understand that the long-term and bottom-line goal of education is transfer.

Understanding: The Problem With Breaking The Whole Into Parts

Grant WigginsJun 26, 2017

Mastery of a complex whole requires designing backward from the complex whole and the interesting questions related to it.