Let’s Focus On Local Assessment by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education If you agree that the track we are going down on high-stakes one-shot testing of every student in terms of Common Core is unproductive and unsustainable, I have a modest proposal to make about how to ditch the tests but move Common Core standards forward. Let’s use…
We know the strong relationship between feedback & achievement. What about the one between feedback, personalization and, hence, motivation?
What if we hired 4 teachers for 3 classrooms? That would have enormous benefits of having more teachers than classrooms.
Few understand what validity means in assessment and how it is determined. This confusion leads to various unhappy and important consequences.
A ‘real-world’ assessment is meant to focus on the impact of one’s work in real or realistic–and often ‘messy’–contexts.
The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because of it.
Why Great Teaching Means Letting Go by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, 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…
Homework is only formative if it recurs as a task in which I can learn from feedback to improve at the ‘same’ task. This is easily accessible.
6 Questions On Measuring Creativity & Other Abstractions by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Oh, you can’t measure that… I hear this in almost every conversation about assessment of long-term educational goals. “Critical and creative thinking – oh, you can’t measurethat.” Why are educators so quick to say things like this? On its face the claim is a…
If we ever asked a large amount of students to give one word to describe school, I think that about 90% of them would simply say: boring.
Why You Teach: Developing A Teacher Mission Statement by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Why do you teach? I am not asking this question in the sense often assumed, i.e. why do you personally want to teach? That kind of egocentric stuff never appeals to me. I am not interested in a teacher’s account of personal motive…
It is the continual addressing of essential questions that moves us from naïve and okay teachers to skilled professionals teaching learning.
The overwhelming amount of information will surely impede learning for many students in the absence of teaching grounded in good curriculum.
How Good Teachers Decenter Themselves by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education As teachers we understandably believe that it is the ‘teaching’ that causes learning. But this is too egocentric a formulation. As I said in my previous post, the learner’s attempts to learn causes all learning. The teaching is a stimulus; the attempted learning (or lack of it) is the…