New Learning: Characteristics Of An Innovative Classroom
From content to thought, linear learning to spiral learning, and grading to micrograding, here are possible characteristics of an innovative classroom.
From content to thought, linear learning to spiral learning, and grading to micrograding, here are possible characteristics of an innovative classroom.
In a perfect world, all assessment would be formative–an ongoing loop of learning, feedback, revision, and learning again.
It’s an extraordinary amount of work to design precise and personalized assessments that illuminate pathways forward for individual students.
Effective use of technology can reduce teacher workload, enable new instructional strategies, and improve student performance.
If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.
Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of writing.
SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).
The quality of an idea and the collective quality of the effects of that idea are two very different things.
Incrementalism is the process of change by small degrees. Gradualism. This is also the process education has chosen for improvement.
The world is changing — let schools become something that works for children, something that visibly improves the arc of their lives.
Creativity is a 21st-century teaching and learning currency–and the best way to make sure it happens is to give points for it.
So you’ve been told to play outside, and you’re not sure what to do. There’s no electricity, no Wi-Fi, and the sun’s glaring on your iPad.