Tag: Grant Wiggins

Mandating The Posting Of Learning Targets & Other Mindless…

Grant WigginsFeb 21, 2014

The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because of it.

Great Teaching Means Letting Go

Grant WigginsJan 15, 2014

Why Great Teaching Means Letting Go by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. […]

Using Homework As Formative Assessment

Grant WigginsDec 8, 2013

Homework is only formative if it recurs as a task in which I can learn from feedback to improve at the ‘same’ task.…

On Measuring Creativity & Other Abstractions

Grant WigginsNov 18, 2013

6 Questions On Measuring Creativity & Other Abstractions by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Oh, you can’t measure that… I hear this in […]

Boring Teachers & How We All Can Respond

Grant WigginsNov 3, 2013

If we ever asked a large amount of students to give one word to describe school, I think that about 90% of…

Why You Teach: Developing A Teacher Mission Statement

Grant WigginsOct 24, 2013

Why You Teach: Developing A Teacher Mission Statement by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Why do you teach? I am not asking […]

The Shift From Teaching Content To Teaching Learning

Grant WigginsOct 17, 2013

It is the continual addressing of essential questions that moves us from naïve and okay teachers to skilled professionals teaching learning.

Curriculum Is More Important Than Learning Technology

Grant WigginsOct 5, 2013

The overwhelming amount of information will surely impede learning for many students in the absence of teaching grounded in good curriculum.