What Is A KWHL Chart?
A KWL chart is a graphic organizers that students use before, during, and after learning to activate prior knowledge and reflect on learning.
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The Difference Between Doing Projects And PBL
While project-based learning (PBL) also features projects, in PBL the focus is more on the process of learning and learner-peer-content interaction than the end-product itself.
What Are The Different Types Of Project-Based Learning?
From place-based education to challenge-based learning, different types of project-based learning symbolize its evolution as a learning model.
The Definition Of Authentic Assessment For Learning
A 'real-world' assessment is meant to focus on the impact of one’s work in real or realistic--and often 'messy'--contexts.
4 Principles Of Digital Literacy
Digital literacy is about being able to make sense of digital media. This occurs through meaningful and sustainable consumption and curation patterns that improve an individuals potential to contribute to an authentic community
What Does It Mean To Teach Disruptively?
Teaching for disruption means that things aren’t always going to according to plan—your plan, anyway.
5 Simple Ideas That Can Transform Your Teaching
Realize that the school year is a marathon, not a series of sprints. You have longer than you think to help students learn.
My Pedagogic Creed By John Dewey
Dewey believed that the psychological and social sides are related and that "education cannot be regarded as a compromise between the two."
20 Ways To Improve A Test, Quiz, Or Other Assessment
From making it adaptive to changing the form, timing, language, or structure of the assessment, here are 20 ways to improve a test.
What Is Project-Based Learning?
Project-based learning is the student-centered process of learning through the design, development, and completion of projects.
10 Tips For Creating More Effective Multiple-Choice Questions
Does the item require a passage or graphic? Does it provide all students with the best opportunity to 'show what they know'?
12 Ways For Teachers To Save Time In The Classroom
Implementing the instructional process of formative assessment can actually maximize time for teaching and learning.
15 Rules Of Great Teaching
Good teachers seek engaged students. Great teachers--somehow, someway--find out what makes students click, and use it.
6 Instructional Strategies That Challenge And Support Students
A teaching strategy is anything the teacher does to help students learn. From reciprocal teaching to clarity, here are 6 to get started.
The Best Source Of Education Research Is Your Classroom
There is pressure in education to be research-based and data-based. But where should that research come from?
22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation
In this discussion strategy for learning through conversation, rather than one another, students talk to ideas--and the ideas talk back.