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  I.   Authentic Intellectual Work/Authentic Instruction & Assessment Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) is a teaching framework that promotes students engaging more deeply with problems through inquiry to produce “authentic” and creative results that connect to real life situations and can help students become more successful citizens. Traditional classroom work is considered more a “series of contrived exercises necessary to earn credentials” ( Authentic Instruction and Assessment , pg. 2). This would include things like “spelling quizzes, laboratory exercises, or typical final exams” (pg. 5) that would only document the abilities of a student in a temporary way for a shallow, surface learning experience, with no connection to real life or the community they live in.          The components of AIW are (pg. 4): 1. Construction of Knowledge through organizing and interpreting prior knowledge to solve new problems. 2. ...

Blog #1        Hi! I am J Little. Currently, I work as a reading/writing tutor at a tutoring center in Oklahoma. We  tutor students K-12 in many areas, but my specialty is in using the Wilson Writing Program to help  children who are lagging behind; they are usually 3rd to 8th grade. After having tutored for a while, I  would say third and fourth grade are my favorite student ages to work with. Holding a bachelors in  English from OU and currently working on this masters, I have taught college composition at both OU  and OBU. Objectively, I much prefer the one-on-one engagement of tutoring to teaching an entire class.  This is my favorite job so far, so my plans for the future are to keep doing what I am doing unless  something new comes up. 3rd Grade Classroom Activity for ISTE Standard 1.a: Empowered Learner/Learning Goals      ESTE standard 1.a advises that students should select their own learning goals and work t...