Tag: Grant Wiggins
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 About Lesson Plans
Good questions to guide teacher lesson plans should help move the teacher from ‘What will students do?’ to ‘How can I help…
The Point Of School Isn’t To Be Good At…
The point of school is not to get good at school but to effectively parlay what we learned in school in other…
The Problem With Coverage Teaching
‘Coverage’ is ultimately an egocentric delusion, a form of teacher blindness that because we teach it, students will get it & appreciate…
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…
Critically Examining What You Teach
These are simple prompts that a teacher who has really thought through the course should be able to answer.
How To Use Essential Questions In Your Lesson Design
Inquiry by design, not mere teacher rhetorical questioning, makes an essential question come to life and go into depth.