by edtosavetheworld | Jun 4, 2015 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
Educators today seem to be faced with a choice: Keep teaching centuries-old ways of organizing the world through traditional disciplines such as math, science and music or throw it all out in favor of innovation, creativity and problem-solving skills. OR It is a...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 30, 2015 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
Here’s an oldie-but-goodie from the Ed2Save archives, published in 2013: 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...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 11, 2014 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
The best single piece of research on learning is a book called How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School published by the U.S. National Research Council. It’s available for free download on the website. The findings strongly support a concept-based...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 9, 2014 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
This is one of our most popular posts from Dr. H. Lynn Erickson, first published on April 23, 2013. Enjoy! Today we are honored to have as guest blogger Lynn Erickson, author, trainer and creator of a systematic method for designing curriculum called Concept-Based...
