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.
Grant Wiggins
7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback
Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.
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.
3 Lasting Lessons For Teachers From Grant Wiggins
3 Lasting Lessons For Teachers From Grant Wiggins by Jay McTighe Ed note: If you’re interested in hearing a (podcast) conversation …
Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding
Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding by Terry Heick Modern education icon Grant Wiggins, co-creator of Understanding by Design, has died, …
Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text
Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Selecting Text For Comprehension In the previous literacy posts …
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Why Do High School History Teachers Lecture So Much?
Why Do High School History Teachers Lecture So Much? by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins …
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What I Think I Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings
What I Think I Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education While exploring teacher effectiveness ratings, I went looking …
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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.’
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.
Taking A Closer Look At Teacher Effectiveness Ratings: Part 1
Taking A Closer Look At Teacher Effectiveness Ratings: Part 1 by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Can a chronically “failing” school be inhabited …
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Launch, Fail, Grow: Using Iteration To Build Great Schools
Using Iteration To Build Great Schools by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: This post was originally longer, but we’ve broken it …
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