Where Essential Questions Come From by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education “I didn’t know they could think!” an excited high school principal blurted out. The principal was reacting to what he had ...
When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general ...
by Grant Wiggins, authenticeducation.org April is test-prep month (apparently). So, what better use of this blog than to provide harried readers with some test-prep tips? But beware: the tips I am ...
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D., AuthenticEducation.org The Difference Between Learning Strategies And Skills Strategy noun, plural strat·e·gies. The science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning ...
How To Create A Rubric That Does What You Want It To by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D., Authentic Education Just what is a rubric? And why do we call it that? A rubric is a ...
by Grant Wiggins, Authenticeducation A recent query via Twitter asked a question we often hear: isn’t UbD (or any planning process) antithetical to such approaches as project-based learning and inquiry-based ...
By Grant Wiggins, Ph.D Stupidification (n): 1. A deadly illness in which perfectly good ideas and processes are killed as a result of thoughtless interpretation and implementation. 2. The reducing of ...
By Grant Wiggins, authenticeducation.org We know that the link between a child’s socio-economic status (SES) and school achievement is real, it is a very tight link as such things go, ...
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by Grant Wiggins How teachers plan – I think this is one of the more interesting ‘black boxes’ in education. There are few studies of it, yet it is clearly ...
by Grant Wiggins With the holidays soon upon us, I thought it appropriate to provide a list of what are arguably the most historically influential books in education, as we ...
7 Differences Between Good And Great Teachers by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education There are endless articles, blogs, essays on the difference between good and bad teachers. All the frameworks for teacher evaluation ...
by Grant Wiggins of Authentic Education I have become a big believer in the power of crowd-sourcing ideas via social media, despite my initial skepticism. A few times, now, I ...
By Grant Wiggins As readers may know, a new book is getting a lot of national press these days: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, by Paul Tough. I ...
I have in general been a fan of the movement toward national standards. There is obvious sense in it: there is no such thing as Georgia algebra or Oregon reading. ...
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Lately I have been thinking a lot about thinking. More specifically, I have been thinking hard about the absence of thought in education. The absence of ...
Everything You Know About Curriculum May Be Wrong. Really. by Grant Wiggins What if the earth moves and the sun is at rest? What if gravity is just a special case ...
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