by edtosavetheworld | May 14, 2014 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking, Testing and Assessments
By now you’ve been asking students to think like disciplinarians for quite some time. You’ve modeled for them with a think aloud. You’ve asked them to coach each other using discipline specific questions. You’ve designed activities and...
by edtosavetheworld | Mar 7, 2014 | Innovation Series
Google, google everywhere, but not an app to sync! Okay couldn’t resist making an Ancient Mariner allusion, but to be honest that’s how it feels sometimes. There’s so much education technology out there, but how do we actually start integrating it in our classroom?...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 26, 2013 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
In a recent Education Leadership article, UbD author Grant Wiggins wrote, “Mastery has been reduced to a high score on any old quiz…if you achieved 85 percent or 90 percent on any test of content, you would be deemed to have demonstrated mastery – no matter how...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 24, 2013 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
So you want to create a performance task that measures conceptual understanding….try these three steps. 1. Determine what conceptual relationship you want to assess. For example: You want to assess the relationship between power and systems. Maybe the exact...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 11, 2013 | Stage 2: Active Processing
Active processing is all about turning on students’ brains while learning — it’s contrasted with passive learning, rote learning or shallow memorization. Students should understand the learning goal and be able to track their progress towards that...
