Rethinking Education S2E9: Jay McTighe on how to 'backward design' educational nirvana
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False Dichotomy: Knowledge & Thinking
- It's a false dichotomy to separate knowledge from critical thinking; both are essential and intertwined.
- Teaching for understanding means focusing on big ideas, disciplinary thinking, and applying knowledge, not just facts recall.
Transfer Requires Deliberate Practice
- Transfer learning is a continuum from near to far transfer and requires deliberate, systematic teaching.
- Lack of transfer may reflect insufficient instructional emphasis rather than impossibility.
AMT Instructional Model
- Align instruction with acquisition, meaning making, and transfer goals.
- Teachers act as instructors, facilitators, and coaches depending on students' learning stages.
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Introduction
00:00 • 4min
The Rethinking Education Podcast - Jay MacTie
04:19 • 2min
Leading Modern Learning - What's the Rationale?
05:56 • 2min
Learning in the 21st Century
08:15 • 4min
Understanding by Design - The Underpinnings of Leading Modern Learning
11:53 • 5min
Is There a Need to Diversify the System?
16:42 • 3min
How to Invent Your Dream School
19:24 • 6min
Is the Knowledge Rich Curriculum the Way to Go?
24:55 • 5min
The Knowledge Rich Curriculum Is Not Enough, Right?
29:53 • 6min
The Magic Square
35:52 • 2min
Developing a Vision of the Future
38:04 • 4min
Unlocking Potential in Schools
42:26 • 2min
Transdisciplinary and Mission-Based Outcomes
44:54 • 5min
What Are the Kinds of Helpless Questions That You Get From Teachers?
49:34 • 3min
Developing Self-Directed Learners by Design
52:48 • 5min
Interdisciplinary Curriculum
57:34 • 4min
Is Understanding by Design Creating Interdisciplinary Curriculum Experiences?
01:01:04 • 4min
What Is Interdisciplined Learning?
01:04:52 • 3min
What's the Value of the Input Output Impact Framework?
01:07:36 • 3min
The Backward Design Model
01:11:05 • 5min
Transfer Goals - Understandings and Essential Questions
01:16:26 • 4min
Learning to Learn - Four Thoughts
01:20:26 • 6min
Transfer Plenary
01:25:56 • 5min
Transfer Goals
01:30:38 • 2min
How Do We Assess Students' Learning Transfer?
01:32:48 • 4min
The Difference Between Knowledge and Understanding
01:36:55 • 2min
What Is Inauthentic Assessment?
01:38:28 • 4min
Authentic Assessments Aren't Always Conjoined
01:42:33 • 3min
How to Be a Patron of the Podcast
01:45:27 • 4min
The AMT Framework - Learning Goals
01:48:58 • 5min
The AMT Model of Acquisition, Meaning Making, Transfer
01:53:37 • 6min
Code Your Lessons - Is That Activity a or M?
01:59:09 • 3min
The Neurobiological Case for Progressive Education
02:02:12 • 4min
The Importance of Task Clarity in Teaching and Learning
02:06:41 • 6min
Teaching Self-Efficiency in the Classroom
02:12:25 • 2min
Exploratory Talk - The Golden Land of Idealized Talk
02:14:27 • 2min
Learning Skills Curriculum - The Power of Interpersonal Confidence
02:16:24 • 4min
Is Every Child of Failure a Failure?
02:20:52 • 2min
What Are the Long Term Transfer Goals?
02:23:22 • 3min
The 3P Model for Grading and Reporting
02:26:11 • 3min
The 3P Performance Appraisal
02:29:28 • 4min
What Does a Good Grading and Reporting System Do?
02:33:03 • 2min
What Happens When You Don't Grade Kids?
02:35:05 • 3min
The Three Vital Ingredients in Teaching UBD
02:37:46 • 2min
Is There a Mission Statement for Resilience?
02:40:08 • 4min
Is There a Difference Between Resilience and Perseverance?
02:44:23 • 3min
Is There Value in Having Two or Three Schools?
02:47:39 • 3min
Think Big, Start Small, Go for Early Wins and Build on Those
02:50:30 • 4min
What I Learned From School
02:54:46 • 3min
The Power of Questioning
02:57:34 • 4min
How to Pass the Performance Part of the Water Rescue Course
03:01:09 • 3min
Swimming Coach - What's the Best Way to Get Into the Deep End of a Pool?
03:04:16 • 2min
What Are the Key Moments That Shaped You?
03:05:48 • 4min
Is There a Nirvana Experience?
03:10:12 • 2min
The Brain Sciences and the Emotional Side of the Curriculum
03:12:12 • 2min
The Educational Nirvana Experience
03:14:35 • 6min
Creating Rich Performance Based Assessments for Teachers
03:20:08 • 4min
What Is God God Is Love?
03:23:51 • 3min
What Are the Negatives of Rethinking School?
03:27:18 • 3min
Is There a One Size Fits All Box?
03:30:31 • 5min
Meditation - It's Transcendental Meditation
03:35:39 • 5min
Doing Mindfulness Meditations in Schools?
03:40:25 • 5min
Mindfulness Meditation
03:45:34 • 5min
How Are We Going to Get From Where We Are to Where We Need to Be?
03:50:09 • 4min
What's Your Final Request for Listeners?
03:54:32 • 2min
The Long Form Podcast
03:56:16 • 4min
Today I am speaking with Jay McTighe about Leading Modern Learning: A blueprint for vision-driven schools, the 2015 book that Jay co-authored with Greg Curtis.
Leading modern learning builds on Jay’s previous work on Understanding by Design, to guide the reader through the process of taking vision statements really seriously, and then backwards planning your school in such a way that you WILL produce the kinds of young people who will be able to thrive and flourish in this bewildering and rapidly changing world of ours.
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