Visible Learning in Action: How to Document and Value Student Thinking
Discover how Learning as a Consequence of Thinking connects to Visible Learning. Practical strategies for teachers to document and value student thinking in the classroom.
Teacher Clarity
Teacher Clarity: Understanding How Learners Learn
Teacher Clarity
Teacher Clarity: Understanding How Learners Learn
Tag Instructional Strategies and Real World Engagement
It provides the practical, actionable frameworks that teachers use during lessons to execute their plans and keep students engaged with the material. It encompasses effective teaching methods tailored to students’ needs, strategies for incorporating real-world decision-making into the classroom, and practices such as making students’ thinking visible.
Tapas Approach to PBL: Why Direct Instruction Makes It Work
Big project-based learning units can feel like asking students to cook a full feast before they’ve learned how to chop an onion. Teachers feel it too. There’s a lot to manage, a lot to assess, and a lot that can…
How to Design Project-Based Learning with Clarity: 5 Steps That Keep Learning on Track
Projects can energize a class and still miss the mark. Students may stay busy, make attractive products, and enjoy the process, yet finish with thin understanding and uneven work. That is why PBL with Clarity matters. In simple terms, project-based…
How Teachers Help Students Feel Known, Valued, and Respected
From Student Agency: Building A Culture of Thinking Through Changing Roles, anchor page, I discussed that a Culture of Thinking means the eight forces that shape classroom life: expectations, language, time, modeling, routines, interactions, opportunities, and environment (Project Zero, 2024).…
Driving Questions in PBL: What They Are, How to Write Them, and How to Use Them Well
A driving question is the question that gives a project-based learning unit its job. It tells students what they are trying to figure out, why the work matters, and what ties the lessons together. Without it, a project can feel…
Student Engagement by Design: A Practical Guide to Deeper Learning
Introduction Many classrooms appear active, but genuine thinking is absent. Students may complete tasks, yet their attention is elsewhere. This disconnect between activity and thought leads to missed learning opportunities. Student engagement is not about noise or compliant behavior. It…
Take Your Classroom to the Real World with 3 Authentic Strategies
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…