ITAG Conference 2018

In our business, we can cover a fair distance with our students simply by choosing intriguing topics (e.g.,  the Zombie Apocalypse). Yet it is not uncommon to find our students finishing the unit with less complex understanding than we had hoped, or wading through the middle of the semester with sudden lack of purpose. Study the Civil War and have their attention for the day. Study loyalty, dissent, and oppression, and you can deliver learning that sticks and transfers to other disciplines well into old age. Come join a discussion about concepts, principles, student empowerment, and doing right by the deep learner. The session will draw on work by Wiggins and McTighe, Erickson, and Tomlinson to help push our curriculum to a more rigorous level for our students.