Last week I wrote about effective feedback and the different ways students might get feedback during the learning process.  This feedback...

A teacher said, “I just keep thinking that feedback is always me talking to the students about their work.”  As teachers, when we hear...

Some teachers and I had an interesting discussion last week about how despite our best efforts at giving feedback, students weren’t so...

Of course good things (like having kids collaborate in groups) often cause us to rethink a whole bunch of other things (like...

The term “assessment for learning” (educational acronym AfL) was coined by Wiliam and Black in their 1998 article “Inside the Black Box”...

I find the research around growth mindsets fascinating.  I catch myself praising students for intelligence now and switch it to effort....

Assessment is the hardest thing you do.  You need to think about myriad of things all at the same time: What do I assess? Content? ...

Do you create in your classroom a culture of “done” or do you create a culture of learning and improving?  A culture of “done” implies...

As we move into writing June report cards and are beginning to think about assigning grades, it is helpful to differentiate between when...

When thinking about effective feedback you want to think about two types: the feedback that you as the teacher gets which informs how you...