Tag: Grant Wiggins

7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback

Grant WigginsOct 10, 2015

Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.

What Close Reading Actually Means

Grant WigginsOct 9, 2015

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

Terrell HeickMay 27, 2015

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

Grant WigginsMay 5, 2015

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

TeachThought StaffApr 27, 2015

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

TeachThought StaffApr 21, 2015

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.’