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Is Your Lesson a Grecian Urn?

…that any kind of reading and writing, manipulating materials and words, interaction with peers, and exposure to the world in general offer opportunities for learning. With that in mind, think of “Grecian Urn” as more of a relative term than an absolute one: Few lessons will be pure Grecian Urns; almost any lesson will probably have some arguable educational value. Far more lessons will simply contain elements that are Grecian Urn-ish; we can make these lessons better if we try to minimize those elements. The best way to identify a Grecian Urn is to look at a task and ask…

Episode 122: A Simple Trick for Success with One-Pagers

…includes 30 different podcasts, and each one is focused on education. Check out all of the EPN podcasts at edupodcastnetwork.com. Now, before we get into the interview, I want to address a question about one-pagers that might be coming up for listeners who have been following my work for a while, something I probably should have addressed in the interview, but forgot to: Could a one-pager be in danger of being a Grecian Urn assignment? If you’re not familiar with this term, I would recommend you listen to Episode 54 for a full explanation, but real quick: A Grecian Urn…

20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half

…20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half is free to everyone who subscribes to my mailing list. Why should you subscribe? Because there are things in my emails that will revolutionize your teaching. Since 2013, I have been sharing things that have done exactly that: ideas like the Grecian Urn, Pineapple Charts, Fisheye Teaching, Marigold Teachers, and the Single-Point Rubric. And there’s so much more coming. Every week, I send a quick email letting you know about my latest blog posts, podcast episodes, courses, and teaching products. That’s it. If you don’t know me from Eve and you…

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Episode 108: To Learn, Students Need to DO Something

…is the sort of simulation thing that I was talking about with the weather systems. So any time you can get something physical to happen to illustrate concepts, you’re going to help students understand those concepts better. There’s a fine line between doing this and doing something that I call a Grecian urn activity where it’s just sort of decorating and stuff. I’m talking about doing things to help students understand concepts. They don’t have to take a long time. That weather systems simulation, that’s something that could take three minutes if it’s done really off the cuff and maybe…

Is That Higher-Order Task Really Higher Order?

…because students are learning new technology in order to do this project, it takes most of the week to complete, which makes it a strong candidate for the Grecian Urn label: a task that consumes far more time than it gives back in terms of learning. 3: Test (½ class period) The test asks students to correctly identify the number of each amendment, then match the amendment with descriptions of people exercising their rights. The final extended response question asks students to give three examples from their daily lives where they exercise one of the rights guaranteed by the Bill…

Distance Learning: A Gently Curated Collection of Resources for Teachers

…with your instructional goals and are not what we call Grecian Urn assignments, creative-looking projects that don’t ultimately have much instructional value. Book: Students create a children’s book, mini-textbook, handbook, comic, or other kind of book. These can be done on paper or created with apps like Book Creator. Google Tour: Using Google Tour Builder, students can create customized tours that combine photos, text, and targeted locations on Google Earth. These could be used to create tours that explore current events, historical periods or phenomena, science or geography topics, global research topics, students’ personal histories or future plans, or completely…

Project Based Learning: Start Here

…thorough as what you’re looking for, but it does tie into curricular objectives and gives you a starting point to avoid lessons that are more like a Grecian Urn. PBL should be meaningful to students while also improving their skills and knowledge. In addition to the resources listed in this post, hopefully others here can suggest PBL they’ve done for high school English that can help you out. Emily Basili Hello, I have been a substitute teacher for six years and would agree with your previous article: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/do-something/ . I have subbed in classrooms where plans were thoroughly explained, but…