Tag: Grant Wiggins
Why Students Don’t Always Transfer What They Seem To…
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…
Taking A Look At Teacher Effectiveness Ratings: Part 1 by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Can a chronically “failing” school be inhabited by 100% “effective”…
Launching A New Idea In Your School? Some Thoughts…
How To Launch A New Idea For Your School by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: This is a slightly-edited excerpt from a post…
Want To Know How Students Feel When They Read…
What, in fact, do you do when you read challenging text? What do you do when you do not understand on first…
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.
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.
Why Item Analyses In Assessment Are So Important
Item analyses in assessment are important because they offer insight into what a student actually understands.
12 Mistakes Schools Make When Introducing The Next Big…
Well-meaning local change agents and schools continue to make mistakes in how Understanding by Design (UbD) is implemented.