How To Create A Rubric That Does What You Want It To - 0 views
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Thomas Brandt on 12 Mar 13Grant Wiggins discusses what rubrics are, how they are misused and how we can use them effectively.
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Teacher Planning Doesn't Have To Stifle Creativity In Schools - 0 views
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Grant Wiggins explains why teacher planning for learning provides a framework for "clarifying purposes and the best means of causing them, in order to achieve the most satisfying outcomes."
Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day - 0 views
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The authors advocate for strategies that shift assessment from quality control to quality assurance.
Edunators - Helping Teachers Overcome Obstacles and Focus on Learning - Lesson Planning... - 0 views
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Re-imaging the 4 critical questions through student eyes can provide a blueprint for lessong planning.
Incorporating Authentic Assessment - 0 views
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The faculty resource "quick tip" page from Park University gives a concise view of incorporating authentic assessment along with traditional assessments of learning.
Assessment In The 21st-Century Classroom - 0 views
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Presentation on Assessment and Feedback in the 21st Century Classroom.
Innovative Educators Don't Say, "Hand It In." They say, "Publish It! - 0 views
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It takes more than collecting data or creating on computers to be a 21st century school. If educators are not having students publish regularly in thoughtful, authentic, and relevant places they are NOT preparing them for today or tomorrow.
Deeper Learning: Performance Assessment and Authentic Audience | Edutopia - 0 views
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If the students don't recognize assessments as a chance to show their learning, then these things aren't even assessments; they're something altogether alien to real learning. Fortunately, there are many approaches we can take within our own classrooms to change this situation.
Continuum of Classroom Assessment Methods - 0 views
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A table illustrating the characteristics of various assessment tools on a continuum from more structured / de-contexualized to less structured / more contextualized.
Methods for Assessing Learning Targets - 0 views
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A table adapted from Student-Involved Assessment for Learning that gives a picture of how appropriate various assessment methods are for a variety of learning target types
Observing Student Understanding - 0 views
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School of the Future techniques for asking questions that promote student thinking and give you time to observe student understanding
Three Steps for Improving Teacher Questions | Edutopia - 0 views
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This article explains three specific actions that we can take to improve our questions. To begin with, we need to get students talking rather than the teacher talking. Second, prepare the questions when you plan the lesson. And third, scaffold the questions.
13 Concrete Examples Of Better Feedback For Learning - 0 views
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Thirteen examples of how teachers have made feedback (as opposed to advice and evaluation) more central to their work with students.
Feedback for Learning: Seven Keys to Effective Feedback - 0 views
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To improve formative assessment practices among both teachers and assessment designers, we need to look more closely at just what feedback is-and isn't.
Teaching Students to Ask their Own Questions - 0 views
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What would happen if the roles were flipped and students asked the questions? Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana document a step-by-step process to help students formulate and prioritize questions about nearly everything.
Social Studies Learning Activity Types - 0 views
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The taxonomy presented here provides scaffolding for teachers as they consider how to best structure Social Studies learning activities, and how to best support those activities with educational technologies.
Secondary English Language Arts Learning Activity Types - 0 views
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The taxonomy presented here provides scaffolding for teachers as they consider how to best structure Secondary English learning activities, and how to best support those activities with educational technologies.
Science Learning Activity Types - 0 views
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This activity types taxonomy for science introduces a range of student learning activities for teachers to consider when building lessons that strive to effectively integrate technology, pedagogy, and content.
Math Learning Activity Types - 0 views
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This activity types taxonomy for mathematics introduces a range of student learning activities for teachers to consider when building lessons that strive to effectively integrate technology, pedagogy, and content.
K-6 Learning Activity Types - 0 views
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The K-6 literacy learning activity types identified here attempt to simplify the complexity of teaching a child to read and write by subdividing these processes into manageable learning activities that effectively integrate technology, pedagogy and content.