Professional Development Classes

Powerful Planning: Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design

Instructors: Sherri Cyra, Denise Herrmann, Jerry Nicholson, MaryBeth Paulisse, Nancy Wyngaard, George Mavroulis

In this course participants will develop skills and strategies needed to create powerful curriculum, instructional units, and quality assessments in a standards-dominated era and ensure academic success for the full spectrum of learners. 

Based on the work of Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe, participants will 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. 

• Differentiated Instruction is predominantly an instructional design model that focuses on whom we teach, where we teach, and how we teach so that all learners – from our most challenged to our most advanced – can access and be challenged by our curriculum.
• Understanding by Design is predominantly a curriculum design model that focuses on what we teach so that the curriculum and assessment designed by educators truly cultivates the understanding of their students. 

This class will provide time to develop both a conceptual understanding of UBD and DI as well as apply these concepts while designing an instructional unit.  This would be an ideal co-planning opportunity for teams, but all interested educators are welcome.  Participants need to bring an idea for a new unit or a current unit that you would like to re-design.

Class Limit is 20

Dates: June 18 - 22 (class is full) OR June 25 - 29 OR  July 23 – 27, 2012

Location: Middleton High School

Credits/Cost: Non-MCPASD - 3 Graduate Credits - $650.00

Credit/Cost: MCPASD Staff Only Options: $330.00 pay or 3 Free Grad Credits or 7.5 professional development hours plus $200.00 pay

 

Register for June 18 - 22, 2012 Class (class is full)

Register for June 25 - 29, 2012 Class

Register for July 23 - 27, 2012 Class