Performance Task PD with Jay McTighe

How Should We Teach Toward Success with Performance Tasks? (Part 7)

In this blog we’ll examine five recommended practices for instructional planning and teaching in order to prepare students to tackle authentic performance tasks.

How will we evaluate student performance on tasks? (Part 6)

Student responses to assignments and assessment items that have a single, correct answer can be scored using an answer key or a scanning machine. In contrast, performance tasks are typically open-ended and therefore, teachers…

How can we upgrade performance tasks with technology? (Part 5)

Today’s students are truly digital natives and it makes sense to let them play in the digital sandbox. Accordingly, an increasing number of schools provide students with technology (laptops and tablets) and/or allow their…

How Can We Differentiate Performance Tasks? (Part 4)

How Can Educators Design Authentic Performance Tasks? (Part 3)

Why Should We Use Performance Tasks? (Part 2)

The case for the increased use of performance tasks rests on two foundational…