Teacher Clarity: Understanding How Learners Learn
Teacher Clarity: Understanding How Learners Learn
Design effective lessons by aligning standards with clear goals, fostering better student outcomes through structured planning and engagement.
Introduction Imagine students confidently presenting a well-reasoned argument, supporting it with evidence, and clearly explaining its significance. When you plan a lesson, one thing matters most. Students should know exactly what they are learning, why it matters, and how to…
What is Productive Struggle? Productive struggle involves developing habits of mind, such as perseverance and flexible thinking, rather than just seeking instant solutions. You should expect not to know how to solve a problem at first. The goal is to…
3 Ways Building Mistake Tolerance Carl Slater, author of Nurturing Mistake Tolerance in the Classroom article, suggests 3 ways to build mistake tolerance in the classroom by: Slater points out that “Teachers can help students get over the fear of…
Seeking Rigor In PBL What is Rigorous Project Based Learning? Robert Marzano presents a way to design projects that emphasizes the enhancement of students’ options. He uses structures that provide clear pathways to rigor from his book Understanding Rigor in…
Enhance Learning with Student Engagement A good and satisfying learning experience is linked to how well a student interacts with their lessons, teachers, and classmates. This participation is known as student engagement, and it is important for both academic success…
3 Authentic Strategies To Take to Your Classroom to the Real World There are ways to take your classroom to the real world by making the classroom a real-world setting, where students make real-world decisions with real-world consequences. 3 strategies…
Design PBL with Clarity Rigorous Project Based Learning by Michael McDowell Video Michael McDowell, author of Rigorous PBL Design, suggests 5 steps to ensure students can answer where I am going in my learning: Step 1: Prioritize key learning intentions.…
Shape Project Design with Clarity Michael McDowell’s first design shift, Clarity, focuses on shaping project design (PBL) to enable students to address question 1, where am I going in my learning? McDowell ensures clarity by using two design challenges that…
Introduction To help facilitate Project-Based Learning of your own, a fourth-grade teacher and James Fester, author of Creating a PBL unit Based on Local History in Elementary School, give 5 important tips that are effective in creating a Project-Based Learning…
What is Hexagonal Thinking? Hexagonal thinking involves students recording ideas, questions or facts on hexagonal tiles and arranging them so that related tiles are next to each other, essentially building a web of connections. It can be used to provide…
Using Community Challenges to Collecting Real-World Problems Using Community Challenges to promote mind and skill sets is to collect real-world problems that are a challenge or driving question for students. This is PBL’s first step in the learning process, which…
This content has been updated and expanded in The Complete Guide to PBL Booklet. Click here to access the most current, comprehensive guide. SUMMARY OF 8 KEY ELEMENTS OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING This post distills the foundations of high-quality project-based learning…
Effective Instructional Practices In today’s changing school environment, it is important to ensure students learn. Learning is a process that needs good teaching methods that fit each student’s needs. This blog post will talk about instructional practices. It will show…
Introduction Rigorous learning environments are the cornerstone of academic and personal growth. Drawing on Barbara Blackburn’s framework from Rigor is Not a Four Letter Word, combined with broader insights into best teaching practices, 5 essential characteristics consistently define high levels…
Introduction Strengthen student engagement, author Dr. Richard D Jones, is based on Engagement-Based Learning and Teaching. It is an approach that provides the foundation for developing and strengthening student engagement and the learning process. Dr. Jones built the foundation through…
The 6 Ways to Make Thinking Visible A Powerful Practice are, according to Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church authors of the The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Ritchhart and Church examine what is it about making Thinking Visible practices that…