Title: Book Study: Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe
Course ID #: 011008rs

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Dates:
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Location: CMSCE lab
Cost: $300
Presenter(s): Jackie Halaw
Audience: Grade K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Supervisors, Special Ed Teachers

Description:
Come join us in three after school sessions of professional dialogue about the book, Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe. Book Description: In this book the two models of DI and UbD converge, providing readers fresh perspectives on two of the greatest contemporary challenges for educators: crafting powerful curriculum in a standards-dominated era and ensuring academic success for the full spectrum of learners. Each model strengthens the other. Understanding by Design is predominantly a curriculum design model that focuses on what we teach. Differentiated Instruction focuses on whom we teach, where we teach, and how we teach. Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe show you how to use the principles of backward design and differentiation together to craft lesson plans that will teach essential knowledge and skills for the full spectrum of learners. Connecting content and kids in meaningful ways is what teachers strive to do every day. In tandem, UbD and DI help educators meet that goal by providing structures, tools, and guidance for developing curriculum and instruction that bring to students the best of what we know about effective teaching and learning. Pizza dinner will be served.

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