Teaching Resources For Sustainable, Innovative Teaching

27 Simple Ways To Check For Understanding

Whether you’re using data to personalize learning or refine curriculum, the ability to easily check for understanding is critical to your teaching.

If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.

From formative and summative assessment to criterion-referenced and benchmark assessment, each type of assessment has a unique function.

As a strategy for the beginning of class, it’s hard to beat surveys to answer the question, “What’s this got to do with me?”

One obvious way to promote inquiry learning in your classroom is to design lessons and units that benefit from, promote, or require it.

Kairos emphasizes a student’s readiness to learn while Chronos represents chronological, structured time in education.

Reflection is a fundamental tenet of learning; and therefore, a fundamental part of teaching. Here’s what it means to be a reflective teacher.

The 40/40/40 rule: What’s important that students understand for the next 40 days, for the next 40 months, for the next 40 years?