My Latest Articles and Blogs:

How To Provide Better Feedback Through Rubrics

Assessing Deeper Learning

Demystifying Transfer Goals

8 Quick Formative Assessment Strategies to Check for Understanding

It’s Time for Curriculum Mapping 3.0 | Solution Tree Blog

Instructional Shifts to Support Deep Learning

Seven Strategies for Supporting Student Learning in a Remote Environment

Using UbD to Make the Next Generation Science Standards Come to Life

Learning Loss: Are We Defining the Problem Correctly?

A Policy Paper  Needed – An Assessment Overhaul

Three Key Questions on Measuring Learning – Educational Leadership

Eight Essential Principles for Improving Grading – Educational Leadership

Beware the Test Prep Trap

White Paper  Introduction to Understanding by Design

Blog Series on Performance Tasks   click here

Articles by Jay

• Backward Design and Theatrical Directing

• Backward Design for Forward Action

• Choosing APPS by Design

• Common Core Standards Require Nuanced, Multi-facted Analysis

• Cornerstone Tasks in Theater

• Cueing Thinking in the Classroom

• Did They Learn It?

• Differentiated Instruction and Educational Standards: Is Detente Possible?

• Do We Need an Assessment Overhaul?

• Examining the Teaching Life

• From Common Core Standards to Curriculum: Five Big Ideas

• Grading “Participation”

• Helping Teachers Understand Understanding

• How to Be An Education Troubleshooter

• How Not to Kill UbD – by Design

• LDC and UbD – Complementary Frameworks

• Making the Most of PLCs

• Meaningful Learning for All Students

• Measuring What Matters

• Moving Forward with UbD

• Performance-Based Assessment in the Classroom

• Put Understanding First

• Receiving Questions about CRT?

• The Role of Cornerstone Task in the Next Generation Theater Standards

• Seven Practices for Effective Learning

• Teaching for Understanding

• Teaching for Meaning and Understanding: A Summary of Underlying Theory and Research

• Teamwork on Assessments Creates Powerful Professional Development

• Three Lessons for Teachers from Grant Wiggins

• UbD and the Primary Years Program (PYP)

• UbD in a Nutshell

• UbD Research Base

• UbD Review Criteria for Textbooks

• Using Backward Design for Action Planning

• What Happens Between Assessments

• Yes, but… (objections to UbD)

• You Can Teach for Meaning

Related and Useful Articles

How to Make Your Questions “Essential” by Grant Wiggins

• How to Make Your Questions Essential

What is Transfer by Grant Wiggins

• What is transfer? Grant Wiggins

Teaching for Meaningful Learning

• Teaching for Meaningful Learning – Edutopia

Blogger, Jennifer Gonzalez, writes a cautionary article about the superficiality of “activity-oriented” units.

• http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/grecian-urn-lesson/

Neurologist and teacher, Dr. Judy Wills, discusses how UbD reflects insights about learning from neuroscience.

• Understanding by Design Meets Neuroscience

A summary of research on Transfer.

• Research on Deeper Learning as Transfer

Research on Deeper Learning (a main goal of UbD)

• Deeper Learning

• Teaching for Meaningful Learning

Shaun Killion argues that Knowledge is a prerequisite to Understanding

• How to Teach for Deep Understanding: The Missing Step

 

Linda Darling-Hammond makes the case for expanded use of performance assessments.

• Testing to, and Beyond, the Common Core

Noam Chomsky discusses high-stakes testing.

• Noam Chomsky on the Ills of High Stakes Testing.

A classic article by Grant Wiggins. Written in 1989, it is perhaps even more timely today.

• The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance

A modern version of the same ideas by David Perkins

• What’s Worth Learning in School?

A soon-to-be classic article on “feedback” by Grant Wiggins

• Seven Keys to Effective Feedback

A thoughtful article by Grant Wiggins on grading and reporting.

• Toward Better Report Cards

Tom Guskey discusses notable obstacles to reform of grading practices.

• Five Obstacles to Grading Reform

Neurologist Judy Willis explains how video games provide insights into teaching.

• Neuroscience and Video Games

A seminal article on the power of formative assessments.

• Working Inside the Black Box

A classic article on “big ideas” in mathematics.

• Big Ideas in Mathematics (NCSM)

Rick Stiggins distinguishes assessments OF learning from assessment FOR  learning.

• Assessment for Learning

Marc Chun described the qualities of authentic performance tasks and how to teach toward them.

• Taking Teaching To Task

Conceptual understanding in mathematics – a blog by Grant Wiggins

• Click here.

A classic article about Transfer.

• Transfer of Learning — Perkins and Salomon

A Venture Capitalist Examines the Purpose of Education

• The Purpose of a Modern Education

Erik Mazur describes his Interactive Lecture method.

• Click here.

Teacher Ron Berger discusses how to discusses a culture of excellence through authentic, project-based learning.

• Fostering an Ethic of Excellence

An excellent summary of the 16 Habits of mind identified by Art Costa and Bena Kallick.

• Habits of Mind
  

Discusses ways in which Understanding by Design can support programs for ELL.

• Standards-Based Instruction for English Language Learners

Excellent article on the teaching of History in Colleges and High Schools.

• Uncoverage: Toward a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey

Seven Principles of Effective Learning – David Perkins uses baseball as a metaphor.

• Click here.
  

A Research Study of Understanding by Design in Singapore

• Research Study – UbD in Singapore

A teacher “shadows” a student for a day and reports on the experience. A must read for all educators!

• Click here to read the article.

A description of an action research study of classroom assessment practices in Donegal (PA) school district.

• Donegal Assessment Survey

Free on-line courses are available in multiple disciplines and topics. The courses include  videos, audio lectures, and notes given by professors at Harvard, Princeton and MIT, and may be accessed at:

• http://www.onlinecourses.com/

Beware the Test Prep Trap

Beware of Test Prep – pdf file

White Paper  Introduction to Understanding by Design

UbD Articles (ASCD Members)   click here

Blog Series on Performance Tasks   click here

Articles by Jay

• Backward Design and Theatrical Directing

• Backward Design for Forward Action

• Choosing APPS by Design

• Common Core Standards Require Nuanced, Multi-facted Analysis

• Cornerstone Tasks in Theater

• Cueing Thinking in the Classroom

• Did They Learn It?

• Differentiated Instruction and Educational Standards: Is Detente Possible?

• Do We Need an Assessment Overhaul?

• Examining the Teaching Life

• From Common Core Standards to Curriculum: Five Big Ideas

• Grading “Participation”

• Helping Teachers Understand Understanding

• How to Be An Education Troubleshooter

• How Not to Kill UbD – by Design

• LDC and UbD – Complementary Frameworks

• Making the Most of PLCs

• Meaningful Learning for All Students

• Measuring What Matters

• Moving Forward with UbD

• Performance-Based Assessment in the Classroom

• Put Understanding First

• The Role of Cornerstone Task in the Next Generation Theater Standards

• Seven Practices for Effective Learning

• Teaching for Understanding

• Teaching for Meaning and Understanding: A Summary of Underlying Theory and Research

• Teamwork on Assessments Creates Powerful Professional Development

• Three Lessons for Teachers from Grant Wiggins

• UbD and the Primary Years Program (PYP)

• UbD in a Nutshell

• UbD Research Base

• UbD Review Criteria for Textbooks

• What Happens Between Assessments

• Yes, but… (objections to UbD)

• You Can Teach for Meaning

Related and Useful Articles

Teaching for Meaningful Learning

• Teaching for Meaningful Learning – Edutopia

Blogger, Jennifer Gonzalez, writes a cautionary article about the superficiality of “activity-oriented” units.

• http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/grecian-urn-lesson/

Neurologist and teacher, Dr. Judy Wills, discusses how UbD reflects insights about learning from neuroscience.

• Understanding by Design Meets Neuroscience

A summary of research on Transfer.

• Research on Deeper Learning as Transfer

Research on Deeper Learning (a main goal of UbD)

• Deeper Learning

• Teaching for Meaningful Learning

Shaun Killion argues that Knowledge is a prerequisite to Understanding

• How to Teach for Deep Understanding: The Missing Step

 

Linda Darling-Hammond makes the case for expanded use of performance assessments.

• Testing to, and Beyond, the Common Core

Noam Chomsky discusses high-stakes testing.

• Noam Chomsky on the Ills of High Stakes Testing.

A classic article by Grant Wiggins. Written in 1989, it is perhaps even more timely today.

• The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance

A modern version of the same ideas by David Perkins

• What’s Worth Learning in School?

A soon-to-be classic article on “feedback” by Grant Wiggins

• Seven Keys to Effective Feedback

A thoughtful article by Grant Wiggins on grading and reporting.

• Toward Better Report Cards

Tom Guskey discusses notable obstacles to reform of grading practices.

• Five Obstacles to Grading Reform

Neurologist Judy Willis explains how video games provide insights into teaching.

• Neuroscience and Video Games

A seminal article on the power of formative assessments.

• Working Inside the Black Box

A classic article on “big ideas” in mathematics.

• Big Ideas in Mathematics (NCSM)

Rick Stiggins distinguishes assessments OF learning from assessment FOR  learning.

• Assessment for Learning

Marc Chun described the qualities of authentic performance tasks and how to teach toward them.

• Taking Teaching To Task

Conceptual understanding in mathematics – a blog by Grant Wiggins

• Click here.

A classic article about Transfer.

• Transfer of Learning — Perkins and Salomon

A Venture Capitalist Examines the Purpose of Education

• The Purpose of a Modern Education

Erik Mazur describes his Interactive Lecture method.

• Click here.

Teacher Ron Berger discusses how to discusses a culture of excellence through authentic, project-based learning.

• Fostering an Ethic of Excellence

An excellent summary of the 16 Habits of mind identified by Art Costa and Bena Kallick.

• Habits of Mind
  

Discusses ways in which Understanding by Design can support programs for ELL.

• Standards-Based Instruction for English Language Learners

Excellent article on the teaching of History in Colleges and High Schools.

• Uncoverage: Toward a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey

Seven Principles of Effective Learning – David Perkins uses baseball as a metaphor.

• Click here.
  

A Research Study of Understanding by Design in Singapore

• Research Study – UbD in Singapore

A teacher “shadows” a student for a day and reports on the experience. A must read for all educators!

• Click here to read the article.

A description of an action research study of classroom assessment practices in Donegal (PA) school district.

• Donegal Assessment Survey

Free on-line courses are available in multiple disciplines and topics. The courses include  videos, audio lectures, and notes given by professors at Harvard, Princeton and MIT, and may be accessed at:

• http://www.onlinecourses.com/