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Returning to school this year will be different than any other year. More than ever before, educators need to devise strategies that provide information about what a student already knows in order to move learning forward.
Category: Planning
A New School Year is Starting…
If you haven’t been thinking this yourself, you’ve probably heard or read some version of these statements. In the group of 25 or so students that you will have in front of you on the first day of school, there will be students who have had, to put it mildly, a variety of learning experiences, and varying amounts of growth (or lack of growth) in that time. How might we possibly meet their needs?
Asking Effective Questions…Effectively
Effective questioning encourages learners to learn with and from each other, supporting a classroom community focused on eliciting and sharing thinking and building thinking skills.
Honing Our Assessment Skills: Accurately conveying the learning in goals and criteria
The concept of ‘success criteria’ is familiar to most educators — but scan the examples being shared on the internet,
Learning Goals and Success Criteria: How to Craft Them
It’s tempting to pick an expectation and to ‘turn it into a learning goal’. However, if we’re going to invite students to be active in their learning (to own it!), we need to go beyond telling them what the goal of ‘today’s lesson’ is.
First Steps: Planning for Learning
What if we change the way we look at planning learning?
HARNESSING THE POWER OF ASSESSMENT 