Teaching Resources For Sustainable, Innovative Teaching

It’s The Goal Of The Question That Matters

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

Hattie’s effect sizes in ascending order are not recommendations, but rather a comprehensive synthesis of a huge amount of data.

Through Doodle 4 Google, students across the country are learning how professional creators harness and channel their imaginations.

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 14, 2014 / New Teacher

Classroom management is as much about instructional design and relationships as it is rules and discipline.

For starters, less is more. As you design curriculum and instruction, give students just enough to get them going, then get out of their way.

For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away.

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.

Teaching / January 28, 2014

Fire needs three things–a spark, oxygen, and fuel. Without any one of those things, we can’t stoke the fire. It will refuse to burn.

Teaching / January 27, 2014 / New Teacher

Done properly, lightening the planning load through collaboration should enable teachers to focus on relationship-building.

How Can You Respond When Students Don’t Pay Attention? Our initial reaction when seeing the following infographic from Mia MacMeekin was to

“Your test scores seem to indicate that your classwork isn’t rigorous enough. Do you include rigor in your class assignments?”