5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom’s Taxonomy
Admit it–you only read the list of the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, not the whole book that explains each level and the rationale behind the Taxonomy. Don’t worry, you’re not alone.
Grant Wiggins
27 Characteristics Of Authentic Assessment
An authentic assessment is meant to focus on the impact of one’s work in real or realistic contexts.
8 Ways To Help Students Improve Their Academic Reading
What is ‘academic reading’? And do my students know exactly what to do when they struggle with it both in and outside of the classroom?
Examples Of Teaching For Transfer Of Understanding In Math And Reading
Students at all ages make this mistake, of assuming that their job is merely to give back what was taught the way it was taught.
Understanding: The Problem With Breaking The Whole Into Parts
Mastery of a complex whole requires designing backward from the complex whole and the interesting questions related to it.
How Student Work Models Make Rubrics More Effective
Without models of student work to validate and ground them, rubrics are often too vague for students to be useful.
How Much Freedom Should A Teacher Have?
Where should there be obligation and where should there be freedom in choice of pedagogy, models, and curriculum?
14 Questions Every Teacher Should Ask Themselves About That Lesson Plan
Typical teacher lesson plans focus too much on fragmented day-to-day lessons for discrete topics instead of planning backward from understanding.
The Point Of School Isn’t To Become Good At School
The point of school is not to become good at school but effectively parlay what we learned in school in life.
The Problem With Coverage Teaching
I could probably ‘cover’ the material four days of assigned readings and lecture-discussion. In my way of doing it, it takes 2 weeks.
You Have To Create Understanding By Design
To achieve understanding as an educator, you have to help students ‘by design’ come to realizations that they own and appreciate as insightful.
Critically Examining What You Teach
These are simple prompts that a teacher who has really thought through the course should be able to answer.