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Taking A Closer Look At Teacher Effectiveness Ratings: Part 1

Teaching / March 22, 2015 / Grant Wiggins

Taking A Look At Teacher Effectiveness Ratings: Part 1 by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Can a chronically “failing” school be inhabited by […]

How To Launch A New Idea For Your School by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: This is a slightly-edited excerpt from

What, in fact, do you do when you read challenging text? What do you do when you do not understand on first pass?

Perhaps it’s time to explore a radical but common sense notion: maybe we don’t understand how reading comprehension develops over time.

Merely playing the game over and over need not cause understanding and transfer. It takes a deliberate processing of the game experience.

Item analyses in assessment are important because they offer insight into what a student actually understands.

Education / November 15, 2014 / Grant Wiggins

Well-meaning local change agents and schools continue to make mistakes in how Understanding by Design (UbD) is implemented.

Although many people think that an academic argument is a one-sided attempt at persuasion, it’s really more like a scientific paper.

Teachers shadowing students will quickly realize that sitting is exhausting, learning is often passive, and teachers are often irksome.

This is key to revolution in education: to think of teachers as hired to help students do their work, not ours.

Learning / September 2, 2014 / Grant Wiggins

How To Plan For Open-Ended Learning by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Over the past few weeks I have received a few interesting

Assessment matrixes can be used by teachers to think about rigor when designing assessments to think more clearly about cognitive demand.