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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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Lesson 1: Teaching is one of the most challenging professions Having just finished Robin Hunter’s book, Madeline Hunter’s Mastery Teaching: Increasing Instructional Effectiveness in Elementary and Secondary Schools, I thought I would run a series of blog posts on lessons learned from reading this seminal piece on being a good teacher. Robin Hunter revised and…
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I hear lots of teachers requesting professional development on classroom management. I think it makes sense in some respects. As educators, our training usually doesn’t involve practical experiences with the intricacies involved in managing a complex environment like a classroom of twenty or more students. We may be learn certain skills, routines, and strategies that…
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