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Originally published 2013 by Esra Girgin on iTDi.pro. Updated May 2026. 5 GOLDEN RULES FOR TEACHING CHILDREN Children are like a sheet of blank paper. Depending on how much you are able to engage your students’ attention, you can have
Originally published 2014 by Matt Shannon on iTDi.pro. Updated May 2026. I’m going to make the case for qualitative assessment in your classroom, and in yourself. Let’s start with what assessment (in this context) isn’t: grades. I don’t really have
Originally published 2012 by Scott Thornbury on iTDi.pro. Updated May 2026. How important is detailed lesson planning? Because you’re probably expecting me to answer the question in the negative, and because I love surprising people, I’ll answer it like this:
Originally published 2015 by Naomi Epstein on iTDi.pro. Updated May 2026. It’s that time of year again at the high school. The twelfth graders are about to take a series of final exams before graduating. Every year there are a
Originally published 2014 by Divya Madhavan on iTDi.pro. Updated May 2026. Why Student-Led Oral Assessment Works I only give one tenth of my students’ oral exam grades. Their peers give the other nine tenths. Does this work? Yes Does this
Originally published 2015 by David Dodgson on iTDi.pro. Updated May 2026. Think of assessment and many teachers think of tests – that moment of fixed time when all the learning of the past few weeks, months or years comes down