Grant Wiggins, Author at TeachThought

You Have To Create Understanding By Design

To achieve understanding as an educator, you have to help students ‘by design’ come to realizations that they own and appreciate as insightful.

These are simple prompts that a teacher who has really thought through the course should be able to answer.

Inquiry by design, not mere teacher rhetorical questioning, makes an essential question come to life and go into depth.

Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.

The goal of close reading is to analyze the text and interpret why details–and the text itself–are significant.

In this post we consider the appropriate text complexity to use in order to help students develop text comprehension.

Merely playing the game over and over need not cause understanding and transfer. It takes a deliberate processing of the game experience.

Item analyses in assessment are important because they offer insight into what a student actually understands.

Education / November 15, 2014 / Grant Wiggins

Well-meaning local change agents and schools continue to make mistakes in how Understanding by Design (UbD) is implemented.

Teaching / November 5, 2014

l Common Core Will Ultimately Fail by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education The current strong backlash to the Standards is completely predictable. Any

Although many people think that an academic argument is a one-sided attempt at persuasion, it’s really more like a scientific paper.

Teachers shadowing students will quickly realize that sitting is exhausting, learning is often passive, and teachers are often irksome.