The Deeper Learning Planning Guide
This tool offers practical guidance on the conditions that have to be established for schools to truly change their practices to ensure students leave school with the sophisticated content knowledge and skills needed to be critical thinkers, problem-solvers, collaborators, and communicators. The Planning Guide is designed to be a resource and tool that can be… Read More ›
The Basics of Differentiated Instruction
This presentation, presented as the 2003 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Summer Conference on Differentiated Instruction, Chicago Illinois, gives an overview of differentiated instruction based mainly on the work of C.A. Tomlinson. Highlights include a visual representation and lists of specific instructional strategies to support students of varied readiness, interests, and learning profiles. It… Read More ›
New Teacher Survival Guide: Differentiating Instruction
This 13-minute video features a new chemistry teacher working with an expert in differentiated instruction to modify a lesson. The goal: to meet the needs of the diverse learners in her classroom. The teacher tries several strategies, including tiered word problems and group work, and discusses her successes and challenges. To facilitate sharing and self-reflection,… Read More ›
Clipboards: A Tool for Informal Assessment
In this short video, an experienced teacher and math coach shares an informal strategy for formative assessment and lesson planning: classroom clipboard. She explains the many ways she uses the informal notes she takes as she observes and interacts with student groups for formative assessment. To facilitate sharing and self reflection, The Teaching Channel provides… Read More ›
Leadership Teams Pursue Powerful Instruction
This six minute video features the story of a high-poverty school using leadership teams to transform teaching to become more focused on student-centered learning. It includes footage of teams in action, discussing topics such as methods for formative assessment. To facilitate sharing and self reflection, The Teaching Channel provides free videos highlighting real teachers implementing… Read More ›
Teaching ELA: Evidence & Arguments Series
This video series highlights a student-centered approach to teaching the ELA core standard “Evidence and Arguments.” Three videos follow the lesson planning, teaching, and post-analysis. The lesson includes many ways to experience a text through close reading, group work, group feedback, a Socratic discussion, and writing a persuasive blog post. An experienced teacher discusses the… Read More ›
OER Commons
This website, Open Education Resource (OER) Commons, is a database of over 50,000 open educational resources and free digital content tools including lesson plans, electronic textbooks, and interactive mini lessons. The database is searchable by subject, grade, and material type. Each entry includes clear terms of use and access to the alignment tool to evaluate… Read More ›
STEM Connection: From Classroom to Workplace
This case study, part of the Schools that Work series on Edutopia, showcases MC2 STEM High School in Cleveland, Ohio. A short overview is accompanied by many supporting resources that describe how the school gets its results. Also of note are the articles on project-based learning and mastery-based assessment. Each article describes the process used… Read More ›
Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps Giving
This short article discusses the benefits of teaching metacognition explicitly in the classroom. The author suggests several tips to help students become more metacognitive including, providing metaphors that students can relate to, looking for opportunities to discuss metacognition across subjects, providing opportunities to chose learning topics, and modeling thinking strategies aloud while teaching. Source Organization:… Read More ›
College and Career Academy Support Network
This site brings together resources for career and college high school academies. The site includes links to curriculum and other content resources, support organizations, and many tools and guides, such as the Master Schedule Guide for schools using a linked learning or multiple pathways/academies approach. While the site is most relevant to California Partnership academies,… Read More ›
Competency Education: Frequently Asked Parent Questions
In this short article, the principal of a school that has been using competency-based education and assessment for five years shares their answers to several questions parents often ask. It includes a basic overview of the ways in which competency-based assessment differs from a more traditional educational approach. It also clarifies the use of reassessment… Read More ›
Proficiency Based Learning at Burlington High School
Proficiency Based Learning at BHS In this 11 minute video, a Physics teacher documents her introduction of a proficiency-based learning approach in the last unit of her course. She clearly describes the steps she took to plan, implement, and assess the impact of this new teaching and learning approach, from writing the proficiencies to pre-… Read More ›