Teacher Clarity: Understanding How Learners Learn
Teacher Clarity: Understanding How Learners Learn
Standard and essential skills involve deconstructing the standard and identifying the essential skills needed to meet the standard.
Most K–10 teachers already work with standards every day. You post learning targets, align tasks to state or national standards, and track progress toward mastery. Yet many students still sit on the edges of learning, confused, bored, or shut down.…
When Tyler Rablin started teaching, he faced a challenge that many new teachers know all too well: how to help students at different levels meet grade-level standards. How do you personalize instruction when everyone’s needs are different? And how do…
Learner Strategies Defined According to O’Connell and Vandas, learner strategies are the plans or actions that help you learn faster and can be used in other learning situations. How do teachers help their students come up with ways to learn?…
Effective Feedback Effective feedback needs to be reviewed as just right, just in time, and just for me. It can nourish unprecedented growth in learning for all students. O’Connell and Vandas, authors of Partnering With Students Building Ownership of Learning,…
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…
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…
Standards Based Planning Process includes planning lessons and units built on standards, and creating assessments that measure student progress toward standards.