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I have always struggled with the practice in schools of ability tracking students. Gifted, not gifted, honors, non-honors, AP, non-AP, athletic, not-athletic, and other designations I may be missing. I don’t mean to suggest by setting up the polarity between the positive (gifted) and the negative (not gifted), that it is only black and white. …
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In Chapter 5 of Robin Hunter’s book, Madeline Hunter’s Mastery Teaching, he reflects on the importance of providing students with information before they can work to build concepts, make inferences, or engage in higher-order thinking. School and life need to provide students with sufficiently rich experiences where they can build a body of knowledge to think…
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This month’s edition of Educational Leadership, Measuring What Matters, focused on student assessment. In this post, the articles will be summarized so that you get the big picture of what matters most when thinking about student assessment. Jay McTighe (@jaymctighe) wrote the opening article, Three Key Questions on Measuring Learning. His three questions that all…
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Madeline Hunter was focused on strategies teachers could use to “get students ready for learning.” Robin Hunter, in the book Mastery Teaching: Increasing Instructional Effectiveness in Elementary and Secondary Schools, writes: First impressions are important, and the beginning of your class or lesson is no exception. Information introduced at the beginning of any sequence is…
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In this second lesson, Robin Hunter reflects on Madeline Hunter’s thoughts about motivating students to learn. In my work with teachers, I hear a lot of conversation about students’ lack of focus, students’ interest in grades and not the learning, and/or need for teachers to manage the classroom behavior at the expense of teaching. These…
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