You Have To Create Understanding By Design
To achieve understanding as an educator, you have to help students ‘by design’ come to realizations that they own and appreciate as insightful.
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Grant Wiggins
Critically Examining What You Teach
These are simple prompts that a teacher who has really thought through the course should be able to answer.
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How To Use Essential Questions In Your Lesson Design
Inquiry by design, not mere teacher rhetorical questioning, makes an essential question come to life and go into depth.
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7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback
Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.
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What Close Reading Actually Means
The goal of close reading is to analyze the text and interpret why details–and the text itself–are significant.
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3 Lasting Lessons For Teachers From Grant Wiggins
One of Grant Wiggins’ lasting lessons is that in order to transfer their learning, students need to understand “big ideas.”
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Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding
As an educator, Grant Wiggins was able to deftly balance the trivium of education improvement–thought, research, and tools teachers can use.
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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text
In this post we consider the appropriate text complexity to use in order to help students develop text comprehension.
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High School History Teachers Lecture Too Much
High School History Teachers Lecture Too Much by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away.
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What I Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings
What I Really Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education While exploring teacher effectiveness ratings, I went looking for
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Misunderstanding The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Framework
Assess the extent to which students, unprompted, use the strategies when reading new text before ‘releasing responsibility.’
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Why Students Don’t Always Transfer What They Seem To Understand
Conditional knowledge includes knowing when and why to apply various actions. This is crucial to the ongoing transfer of learning.
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