Grant Wiggins Archives

What Do Teachers Do? What’s Their ‘Job’?

What am I expected to cause in students? What am I supposed to accomplish? Whatever the answer, that’s my job.

Getting the conditions for self-directed learning right as a teacher requires an understanding of how people learn to think & problem-solve.

Many projects don’t yield transferable learning because too little attention is given to the meta-cognitive and idea-building work.

I enjoy doing history projects that have to do with your own families history. It’s interesting and easier since it has a connection to you.

Want to know what kids need in order to learn better? Ask them: Here are the first 50 answers, unedited, from our typical high schooler.

I can offer a fairly sobering picture of what ails the American high school, drawn from our student survey.

Let’s Focus On Local Assessment by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education If you agree that the track we are going down on high-stakes

Learning / April 22, 2014 / Grant Wiggins

We know the strong relationship between feedback & achievement. What about the one between feedback, personalization and, hence, motivation?

What if we hired 4 teachers for 3 classrooms? That would have enormous benefits of having more teachers than classrooms.

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

A ‘real-world’ assessment is meant to focus on the impact of one’s work in real or realistic–and often ‘messy’–contexts.

The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because of it.