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How to make a grading rubric, step by step
Learn how to make a grading rubric in six steps: criteria, performance levels, descriptors and scoring, with a complete example for an essay.
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How to plan a lesson with Bloom’s taxonomy
What Bloom’s taxonomy is, its six levels with useful verbs, and how to use it to plan a lesson in five steps, with a 45-minute example.
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How to structure a thesis, chapter by chapter
The parts of a thesis, how to build the outline in five steps and a complete chapter-by-chapter example, with the most common mistakes.
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Assessment7 min readHow to make a grading rubric, step by step
Learn how to make a grading rubric in six steps: criteria, performance levels, descriptors and scoring, with a complete example for an essay.
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Planning8 min readHow to plan a lesson with Bloom’s taxonomy
What Bloom’s taxonomy is, its six levels with useful verbs, and how to use it to plan a lesson in five steps, with a 45-minute example.
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Research8 min readHow to structure a thesis, chapter by chapter
The parts of a thesis, how to build the outline in five steps and a complete chapter-by-chapter example, with the most common mistakes.
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Assessment7 min readWays to assess without exams
Eight ways to assess students without a traditional exam, how to keep them fair and an example of assessing a full unit with projects, concept maps and debates.
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Research7 min readHow to find an original research topic
What makes a research topic good, six steps to find and narrow it, an example from broad interest to specific question and the most common mistakes.
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Helenius Lab6 min readHow to find your way into a new topic with an idea map
Learn how to use the Helenius Lab Idea Cartographer to understand a new topic: what to enter, how to read the map and how to move from the big picture to in-depth reading.
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Helenius Lab6 min readHow to review an essay before you hand it in
Learn how to review an essay or a thesis chapter the way a good reader would: thesis, evidence, assumptions and weak points, with the help of Anatomy of a Text.
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Helenius Lab6 min readHow to test an argument before you defend it
Learn how to find the strongest objections to your argument or decision and answer them in time, with a simple method and with The Touchstone from Helenius Lab.
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Helenius Lab6 min readHow to trace the history of a concept
Learn how to reconstruct where a concept comes from, how its meaning changed and what it still carries today, with a simple method and with Genealogy of an Idea from Helenius Lab.
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Helenius Lab6 min readHow to find gaps in the literature
Learn how to spot under-studied areas in your field or your bibliography and check them before investing months in them, with a simple method and with The Gap from Helenius Lab.
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Helenius Lab6 min readHow to write a teaching CV that is clear and professional
Learn how to turn your classroom experience into a clear, concise and well-organized CV, with a simple method and with The Portrait from Helenius Lab.
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Helenius Lab6 min readHow to organize a topic into a clear outline
Learn how to arrange a topic, a set of notes or a project into a chapter outline, a concept tree or an overview chart, with a simple method and with The Structure from Helenius Lab.
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Helenius Lab6 min readHow to make a decision with weighted criteria
Learn how to compare options according to what really matters to you and find the point at which your decision would change, with a simple method and with The Balance from Helenius Lab.
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