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50 Everyday Formative Assessment Strategies

Teaching / October 25, 2021 January 9, 2022 / Our Most Popular

Formative assessment strategies matter. Like a chef checks a dish for taste, teachers must make frequent, targeted checks for understanding.

Implementing the instructional process of formative assessment can actually maximize learning and help teachers save time in the classroom.

Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.

There are many ways to help students think for themselves. Guide them to dynamic spaces characterized by people, thought, and creativity.

In an increasingly digital world, the things a student needs to know are indeed changing–sometimes drastically.

This guide to questioning in the classroom views questions as signs of understanding, not ignorance–the ability to see what you’re missing.

Learning / October 9, 2020 December 27, 2021 / Our Most Popular, Veteran Teacher

From science databases to document collections and more, here are 100 of the best search engines for academic research.

Student-centered teaching is simply the process of teaching with student needs ‘first.’ Here are 15 examples of student-centered teaching.

Killing a learner’s natural curiosity doesn’t happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in rare cases that isn’t long enough.

Even as apps have fallen in favor, mobility is the new standard. Information, communication, search—mobility matters in the modern world.

In rigorous tasks, learners will often need to synthesize data, positions, or theories from multiple sources or perspectives.

Habits of Mind are dispositions mindfully employed by characteristically ‘successful’ people when confronted with problems.