6 Facets of Understanding is a framework of non-hierarchical scopes that are suggested by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe as criteria of understanding. These facets can both be used in designing the learning activities and develop performance-based assessments: Assessment Ideas Using 6 Facets Understanding is quite wider phenomena than just knowledge acquisition. Hence, considering Assessment…
Benjamin Bloom’s proposition of heirarchical educational objectives (popularly known as Bloom’s taxonomy), especially focused on the cognitive domain, has been widely used in the curricular development and instructional designs across the world. The pyramidical illustration of his model (published in 1956) speaks for itself. The original model has been imagined as a pyramid that has…
All the teachers knew that something really promising comes through this school trainer. I first got to know about the term DEAR – Drop Everything and Read in one of our school’s TPD (teacher professional development) sessions. The trainer introduced the idea of DEAR as something which makes the whole school community literally drop everything and read…