Grant Wiggins, Author at TeachThought

9 Benefits Of Having More Teachers Than Classrooms

What if we hired 4 teachers for 3 classrooms? That would have enormous benefits of having more teachers than classrooms.

Few understand what validity means in assessment and how it is determined. This confusion leads to various unhappy and important consequences.

A ‘real-world’ assessment is meant to focus on the impact of one’s work in real or realistic–and often ‘messy’–contexts.

In a recent study, researchers examined the relationship between student cognition and school achievement as measured on standardized tests.

The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because of it.

Teaching / February 6, 2014

The clearer I am about what I am saying and why, the more I may be blind to how unclear, confusing, or unhelpful the lecture is to a novice.

Why Great Teaching Means Letting Go by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away.

Homework is only formative if it recurs as a task in which I can learn from feedback to improve at the ‘same’ task. This is easily accessible.

Learning / November 18, 2013 / Grant Wiggins

6 Questions On Measuring Creativity & Other Abstractions by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Oh, you can’t measure that… I hear this in

If we ever asked a large amount of students to give one word to describe school, I think that about 90% of them would simply say: boring.

Why You Teach: Developing A Teacher Mission Statement by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Why do you teach? I am not asking

It is the continual addressing of essential questions that moves us from naïve and okay teachers to skilled professionals teaching learning.