Grant Wiggins, Author at TeachThought

Designing Curriculum That Teachers Will Actually Use

Teaching / September 25, 2014

What is the purpose of the curriculum? What follows for form, content, process, and who the writers should be?

This is key to revolution in education: to think of teachers as hired to help students do their work, not ours.

Learning / September 2, 2014 / Grant Wiggins

How To Plan For Open-Ended Learning by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Over the past few weeks I have received a few interesting

Assessment matrixes can be used by teachers to think about rigor when designing assessments to think more clearly about cognitive demand.

What am I expected to cause in students? What am I supposed to accomplish? Whatever the answer, that’s my job.

Getting the conditions for self-directed learning right as a teacher requires an understanding of how people learn to think & problem-solve.

Many projects don’t yield transferable learning because too little attention is given to the meta-cognitive and idea-building work.

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.

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.

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 by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education If you agree that the track we are going down on high-stakes

Learning / April 22, 2014 / Grant Wiggins

We know the strong relationship between feedback & achievement. What about the one between feedback, personalization and, hence, motivation?