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.
To achieve understanding as an educator, you have to help students ‘by design’ come to realizations that they own and appreciate as insightful.
These are simple prompts that a teacher who has really thought through the course should be able to answer.
Inquiry by design, not mere teacher rhetorical questioning, makes an essential question come to life and go into depth.
Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.
The goal of close reading is to analyze the text and interpret why details–and the text itself–are significant.
One of Grant Wiggins’ lasting lessons is that in order to transfer their learning, students need to understand “big ideas.”
As an educator, Grant Wiggins was able to deftly balance the trivium of education improvement–thought, research, and tools teachers can use.
In this post we consider the appropriate text complexity to use in order to help students develop text comprehension.
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…
What I Really Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education While exploring teacher effectiveness ratings, I went looking for a New York City high school that had the same demographic profile as the struggling high school referenced previously (see here), but had nonetheless earned good ratings for making adequate improvement on their graduation rates and…
Assess the extent to which students, unprompted, use the strategies when reading new text before ‘releasing responsibility.’
Conditional knowledge includes knowing when and why to apply various actions. This is crucial to the ongoing transfer of learning.
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