by edtosavetheworld | Jul 23, 2014 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
In their new book, Transitioning to Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction authors Lynn Erickson and Lois Lanning outline the steps necessary to create and implement a concept-based curriculum. The first chapter outlines why traditional content objectives are...
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 23, 2013 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
Out: In: While there doesn’t seem to be a shared definition or criteria for performance tasks, it has certainly reached buzz worthy status over the past several years. In the US, the 2001 law called No Child Left Behind seem to usher in the era of...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 31, 2013 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
Here’s a quick experiment: Look at the below chess board for 5 seconds and then look away. No cheating. Now try to reconstruct the board in your mind. How many pieces can you correctly place? Take Our Poll Now answer this question: do you play chess? Take...
