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
One of Grant Wiggins’ lasting lessons is that in order to transfer their learning, students need to understand “big ideas.”
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.
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.
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. …
What I Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings
What I Really Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education While exploring teacher effectiveness ratings, I went looking for …
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 Look At Teacher Effectiveness Ratings: Part 1 by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Can a chronically “failing” school be inhabited by …
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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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