Designing Curriculum That Teachers Will Actually Use
What is the purpose of the curriculum? What follows for form, content, process, and who the writers should be?
The Impact Of A Teacher That Mentors
This is key to revolution in education: to think of teachers as hired to help students do their work, not ours.
Planning For Open-Ended Learning
How To Plan For Open-Ended Learning by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Over the past few weeks I have received a few interesting queries on Twitter, and Labor Day weekend seems like a nice time to respond to them and reflect on the school year ahead. Two of the questions concern the relationship between inquiry and UbD: Q1: Do…
Assessment Design: A Matrix To Assess Your Assessments
Assessment matrixes can be used by teachers to think about rigor when designing assessments to think more clearly about cognitive demand.
What Do Teachers Do? What’s Their ‘Job’?
What am I expected to cause in students? What am I supposed to accomplish? Whatever the answer, that’s my job.
The Changing Role Of The Teacher
Getting the conditions for self-directed learning right as a teacher requires an understanding of how people learn to think & problem-solve.
An Example Of Experiential Learning
Many projects don’t yield transferable learning because too little attention is given to the meta-cognitive and idea-building work.
46 Students Explain The Assignments That Got Their Attention This Year
I enjoy doing history projects that have to do with your own families history. It’s interesting and easier since it has a connection to you.
Students Learn Best When You Do This
Want to know what kids need in order to learn better? Ask them: Here are the first 50 answers, unedited, from our typical high schooler.
Fixing High School By Listening To Students
I can offer a fairly sobering picture of what ails the American high school, drawn from our student survey.
Let’s Focus On Local Assessment
Let’s Focus On Local Assessment by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education If you agree that the track we are going down on high-stakes one-shot testing of every student in terms of Common Core is unproductive and unsustainable, I have a modest proposal to make about how to ditch the tests but move Common Core standards forward. Let’s use…
2 Student Beliefs That Can Change Everything
We know the strong relationship between feedback & achievement. What about the one between feedback, personalization and, hence, motivation?
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