Tag: 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. Grant was…
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.
Misunderstanding The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Framework
Assess the extent to which students, unprompted, use the strategies when reading new text before ‘releasing responsibility.’