S2E9: Jay McTighe on how to 'backward design' educational nirvana
Rethinking Education
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Code Your Lessons - Is That Activity a or M?
If we actually encourage teachers to code their lessons, both their teaching and the learning activities that kids do in the lessons, using the letters A, M, T. For a given lesson or learning activity, is the primary goal for students to acquire knowledge or basic skills? If so, code that A. Is the basic goal of this learning activity to develop and engage student meaning making and coming to understand larger ideas and processes? IfSo, code that as M. And is the primary purpose of this learningactivity or my teaching to prepare students for transfer? Ifso, code that T. There's increasingly a scientific mandate for working in this way.
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