Critically Examining What You Teach
These are simple prompts that a teacher who has really thought through the course should be able to answer.
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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.
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7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback
Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.
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What Close Reading Actually Means
The goal of close reading is to analyze the text and interpret why details–and the text itself–are significant.
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3 Lasting Lessons For Teachers From Grant Wiggins
One of Grant Wiggins’ lasting lessons is that in order to transfer their learning, students need to understand “big ideas.”
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Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding
As an educator, Grant Wiggins was able to deftly balance the trivium of education improvement–thought, research, and tools teachers can use.
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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text
In this post we consider the appropriate text complexity to use in order to help students develop text comprehension.
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High School History Teachers Lecture Too Much
High School History Teachers Lecture Too Much by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Occasionally, we are going to go back and re-share his most memorable…
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What I Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings
A state should say that teacher ratings of 100% effective in ANY school are of questionable validity on their face.
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Misunderstanding The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Framework
Assess the extent to which students, unprompted, use the strategies when reading new text before ‘releasing responsibility.’
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Why Students Don’t Always Transfer What They Seem To Understand
Conditional knowledge includes knowing when and why to apply various actions. This is crucial to the ongoing transfer of learning.
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Taking A Closer Look At Teacher Effectiveness Ratings: Part 1
Can a chronically ‘failing’ school be inhabited by 100% ‘effective’ teachers?
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Launching A New Idea In Your School? Some Thoughts For Your Success
How To Launch A New Idea For Your School by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: This is a slightly-edited excerpt from a post by Grant on differentiation and the implementation of policy. Looking for a process to avoid bad implementation of what very well might be a good idea? A new literacy program, curriculum framework, technology,…
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Want To Know How Students Feel When They Read Complex Texts?
What, in fact, do you do when you read challenging text? What do you do when you do not understand on first pass?
