Assessing What Matters Most: Developing Authentic Performance Tasks – Jay McTighe How does one assess students in a way that allows for meaningful and authentic learning? The CDLT was
pate in group discussions, to analyse scoring tools and assessments and to dive into peer feedback sessions. Lisa Verkerk, ISA’s PYP Curriculum Coordinator and ISA
fortunate to bring in famed educational researcher
Project Zero Coordinator, attended the event and found
and author Jay McTighe to provide hands-on training
the workshop to be inspirational.
employing practical and proven tools to ensure that teachers embody the most important goals of their
“Jay McTighe has a wonderfully calm way of leading
standards, while engaging students in a meaningful
participants through the planning process. The work-
way of learning them.
shop design allowed us to learn new ideas and to apply them within our own context.”
Structured as a “design workshop”, the 2-day event allowed participants to work in role-alike teams, partici-
“He combined the theory of teaching for understanding with tools which teachers could use. We even had time to take these ideas and put them into practice planning of our own upcoming units, so we all left with a valuable resource.”
Upcoming events The Fall calendar for the CDLT is now available online. Be sure to visit 6
the website at https://cdlt.isa.nl for more information