7 Mistakes That Quality Assessments Avoid
Quality assessments seek to learn: what knowledge will I gain about my students’ mastery levels of standards by their answers to questions?
Quality assessments seek to learn: what knowledge will I gain about my students’ mastery levels of standards by their answers to questions?
A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, artifacts, credible sources, and thinking on relevant topics.
Gamified instruction uses the mechanics, engines, and underpinning strategies games use to encourage play to encourage learning.
Some projects will clearly take longer than you have available, others are too large in scale or rely on the involvement of too many people.
Educators know sometimes the best resource for embarking on new initiatives is other educators.
Despite progress, many students continue to decorate folders for papers. This isn’t our best thinking around student portfolios.
The technology students use today will be the worst they ever use. That’s a useful starting point for understanding education technology.
Helping students fail is about thinking like a scientist, farmer, designer, or CEO–failing gives the data needed to proceed.
Initially, in your teaching, you may want to practice aiming only for one Understanding per unit to get a feel for the kind of groundwork.
Student-centered learning puts the needs of the students over the conveniences of planning, policy, and procedure.
Why Teaching Introverts Is Different by Terry Heick As education seeks to improve itself, the focus has been on data, research, and curriculum. The stuff teachers use. There is precious little discussion on the human elements of learning unless you’re discussing isolated movements such as social-emotional learning or whole-child trends. While admirable, these “movements” are…
There are certain things a teacher should never ask a student to do, like lying, being what they’re not, and making promises they can’t keep.
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