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 How to Connect
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A Two-Hour Webinar with
Jay
McTighe
Noted Author of such books as
Understanding by
Design & Schooling by
Design
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Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 1-3 P.M.
Eastern Time
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About the
Speaker
Jay McTighe is
familiar to most educators because of his highly
acclaimed books and his speaking engagements at many
national, state and district conferences and workshops.
Jay is co-author, with Grant Wiggins,
of the best-selling Understanding by Design series,
Understanding by Design (1998); The
Understanding by Design Handbook (1999); The
Understanding by Design Study Guide (2000); The
Understanding by Design Professional Development
Workbook (2004); Differentiated Instruction and
Understanding by Design (2006); and Schooling
by Design (2007).
Jay also has co-authored three
books on assessment, Assessing Learning in the
Classroom; Assessing Outcomes: Performance Assessment
Using the Dimensions of Learning Model; and
Evaluation Tools to Improve as Well as Evaluate
Student Performance.
Jay is a
principal in his own consulting firm, McTighe and
Associates. He has served as director of the Maryland
Assessment Consortium, a state collaboration of school
districts working together to develop and share
formative performance assessments. Jay also worked with
school improvement projects at the Maryland State
Department of Education. He is well known for his work
with "thinking skills," having coordinated statewide
efforts to develop instructional strategies, curriculum
models, and assessment procedures for improving the
quality of student
thinking.
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Dear Colleagues:
The Center
for the Improvement of Child Caring is pleased to alert
you to an exciting online seminar with noted educator,
Jay McTighe.
Jay
will address the challenge of being relevant and
engaging in presenting important ideas to children and
students, and how to do so in a manner that recognizes
their diverse achievement levels, interests, and
learning styles. Jay is an acknowledged expert in
this type of differentiated and individualized
instructional approach.
The
emphasis in this 2-hour online seminar will be on the
interrelated needs of schools to address content
standards in rich and authentic ways while remaining
responsive to the diversity of learners in the
classroom. You will gain a greater understanding
of the mutually supportive connections between
understanding by design and differentiated
instruction.
Specifically, you will learn:
- How to ensure that classes are
relevant and engaging for struggling learners and
advanced learners
- How to decide what types of
differentiated instruction are needed
- A 3-stage model for developing
units of instruction and assessment that focus on
deepening students' understanding of important
ideas
How to effectively use
pre- and on-going assessments to guide teaching and
inform needed
differentiation To
learn more, click on this link or copy and paste it into
your browser :
http://www.ernweb.com/products/item54.cfm?affID=CICCParent
You can also call 207-632-1954 for more
information. Be sure to mention you heard about
the webinar from CICC. Your registration helps support
our work!
Sincerely,
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
Founder and Executive
Director
Center for the Improvement of Child
Caring
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 NOT SURE
YOU CAN MAKE THE
LIVE EVENT?
No
Problem!
The sponsors of this educational
event will email you a link to a recording of the online
seminar within 24 hours. You can listen to it and view
the Powerpoint on your computer at your convenience!
Recording plus CD-ROM
You can also order the
recording and PowerPoint of the webinar, plus the CD-ROM
of the webinar by clicking
here.
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 Kerby Alvy, Ph.D., is
executive director and founder of the Los Angeles-based
35-year-old nonprofit Center for the Improvement of
Child Caring and founder and member of the advisory
board of the National Effective Parenting Initiative.
Dr. Alvy was
previously affiliated with Kedren Community Mental
Health Center in the Watts area of Los Angeles for 7
years, where he served as director of children's
services, and with the Los Angeles campus of the
California School of Professional Psychology for 17
years where he was a professor and dean for academic
affairs.
For more information about CICC's many
programs, activities, products and services, go to
www.ciccparenting.org,
or call toll-free (800)
325-2422.
To sign up to receive CICC's free
Effective Parenting Newsletter, click here.
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