The Leap From Decoding To Comprehension
Perhaps it’s time to explore a radical but common sense notion: maybe we don’t understand how reading comprehension develops over time.
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Experiential Learning: Hands-On Doesn’t Mean It’s Minds-On
Merely playing the game over and over need not cause understanding and transfer. It takes a deliberate processing of the game experience.
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Why Item Analyses In Assessment Are So Important
Item analyses in assessment are important because they offer insight into what a student actually understands.
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12 Mistakes Schools Make When Introducing The Next Big Thing
Well-meaning local change agents and schools continue to make mistakes in how Understanding by Design (UbD) is implemented.
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Chasing The Definition Of An Academic Argument
Although many people think that an academic argument is a one-sided attempt at persuasion, it’s really more like a scientific paper.
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What I Learned By Doing What I Ask Students To Do
Teachers shadowing students will quickly realize that sitting is exhausting, learning is often passive, and teachers are often irksome.
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The Impact Of A Teacher That Mentors
This is key to revolution in education: to think of teachers as hired to help students do their work, not ours.
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Planning For Open-Ended Learning
How To Plan For Open-Ended Learning by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Over the past few weeks I have received a few interesting queries on Twitter, and Labor Day weekend seems like a nice time to respond to them and reflect on the school year ahead. Two of the questions concern the relationship between inquiry and UbD: Q1: Do…
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Assessment Design: A Matrix To Assess Your Assessments
Assessment matrixes can be used by teachers to think about rigor when designing assessments to think more clearly about cognitive demand.
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What Do Teachers Do? What’s Their ‘Job’?
What am I expected to cause in students? What am I supposed to accomplish? Whatever the answer, that’s my job.
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The Changing Role Of The Teacher
Getting the conditions for self-directed learning right as a teacher requires an understanding of how people learn to think & problem-solve.
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46 Students Explain The Assignments That Got Their Attention This Year
I enjoy doing history projects that have to do with your own families history. It’s interesting and easier since it has a connection to you.
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Students Learn Best When You Do This
Want to know what kids need in order to learn better? Ask them: Here are the first 50 answers, unedited, from our typical high schooler.
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Fixing High School By Listening To Students
I can offer a fairly sobering picture of what ails the American high school, drawn from our student survey.
