by edtosavetheworld | Apr 16, 2018 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 5: Students as World Changers, Testing and Assessments
This blog first appeared on Corwin Connect. Education researcher John Hattie’s ground-breaking research about the factors that influence student achievement gives us much to think about in terms of our habits and practices. It helps us to prioritize initiatives,...
by edtosavetheworld | Mar 12, 2018 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 5: Students as World Changers, Testing and Assessments
This blog first appeared on Share My Lesson. Bonus: If you’re interested in exploring this topic further, sign up for Julie Stern’s free webinar, Teaching Big Ideas for Real-World Transfer of Learning. Educators today seem to be faced with a choice: continue teaching...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 12, 2017 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 3: Critical Thinking, Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking, Stage 5: Students as World Changers, Testing and Assessments
In an increasingly complicated world, it is essential that we honor the research-rich past and harness children’s natural curiosity as we look to the future. How do we move beyond surface learning to reach deeper comprehension? What strategies help students make...
by edtosavetheworld | Feb 16, 2016 | Ed2S Fellows, News and Trends, Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient, Testing and Assessments
Today’s post was written by a 2015 Ed2Save Fellow, Jessie Mouw. Her Fellow’s Project is to promote and redefine the importance of failure as a natural and important part of the learning process. Her words follow: The Case for Failure-Friendly Schools ...
by edtosavetheworld | Nov 2, 2015 | Stage 2: Active Processing, Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient, Testing and Assessments
Differentiation is a word that is used often in education — but I worry there is a lack of consensus on what it means, it’s purpose and what it looks like in the classroom. Here is an attempt to distill the essential elements down to four buckets or key...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 6, 2015 | Testing and Assessments
First, we must acknowledge three things about assessments: We are not experts on testing, especially about when and how to assign scores or grades The whole enterprise is fraught with questions of legitimacy and fairness It is such an enormous part of formal schooling...
