From content to thought, linear learning to spiral learning, and grading to micrograding, here are possible characteristics of an innovative classroom.
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In a perfect world, all assessment would be formative–an ongoing loop of learning, feedback, revision, and learning again.
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While ‘being cool’ isn’t necessary for effective pedagogy, there is an undeniable performative component to teaching.
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Effective use of technology can reduce teacher workload, enable new instructional strategies, and improve student performance.
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Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.
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Literature Circles are a way for students to assume a specific role in the study of something (usually a text).
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If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.
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Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of writing.
It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom Read More
SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).
SRE And CEI: Easy To Use Writing Strategies For The Classroom Read More
The quality of an idea and the collective quality of the effects of that idea are two very different things.
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Incrementalism is the process of change by small degrees. Gradualism. This is also the process education has chosen for improvement.
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The world is changing — let schools become something that works for children, something that visibly improves the arc of their lives.
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