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Put Understanding First
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe write in their Educational Leadership article about how to reform school by acknowledging that we have three different types of learning goals: Acquisition, Meaning Making and Transfer.  To Put Understanding First is to realize that too much teaching focuses only on (short-term) acquisition of knowledge and skill instead of (long-term) understanding.
 
What is a big idea?
An idea is “big” if it helps us make sense of lots of confusing experiences and seemingly isolated facts. It’s like the picture that connects the dots or a simple rule of thumb in a complex field.
 
A Conversation with Grant Wiggins: Habits of Mind

Grant Wiggins discusses habits of mind, how to develop them in students, and where to place them in UbD Templates.

 
The Facts on Learning Time

When it comes to time spent in school, are we ready for a paradigm shift?

 
Physics at the Movies

When tough physics concepts are illustrated using box office hits, kids get it.

 
Media Education: Helping Children in a Hyper-Mediated Environment

Is it time to make room in our already crowded curriculum for media literacy?

 
Monitoring What Students Learn by Listening to What they Say

Tuttle presents four ways to collect formative assessment data from students' oral responses.

 
Ten Classroom Creativity Killers

This is my confessional: most of what I learn in art and in teaching is direct result of mistakes I make.  Here are ten mistakes art teachers as well as teachers of any grade or subject must avoid when developing creative learners.

 
Reflections on A Year of Change: Is It Time for Triage?

Despite our best efforts, targeted change within our schools is happening too slowly or it's not happening at all.  Perhaps the time has come to switch to battlefield tactics.   

 
Teaching Critical Thinking: The Believing Game and the Doubting Game

Using Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, Shapiro models an approach to teaching critical thinking that asks students to first believe and then to doubt a point of view.  The ultimate goal is analysis, integration of thought, and deeper understanding of complex ideas.

 


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