ASCD Roundup

I promise this is the last word on ASCD10 and I’ll get back to bagging the National Curriculum next week So, these are some of my ‘take-away’ points after being back for a couple of days, and before it all fades into distant memory. The American education system IS different. Like us, with state interests, [...]

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Transformational Teaching: UbD for pre-service teachers

This was my final ASCD session , and it was from the standpoint of teacher education; a university team from Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, involved in pre-service education, and how they were working with UbD with these new teachers. New Jersey revised Core Curriculum Content Standards in 2008 and that revision was framed in [...]

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Connecting DI, UbD and other acronyms

I was looking forward to the Saturday ASCD session on connecting acronyms because of its powerhouse of presenters: McTighe, Wiggins, Tomlinson and Marzano? (Okay, I didn’t know Marzano), authors of books that have crossed my desk often over the last few years, and important figures in the ASCD world, which seems to be a world [...]

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Curriculum Mapping

One of the most impressive presenters at the ASCD Conference so far has been Heidi Hayes Jacobs who opened with a session on curriculum mapping on Saturday.  I’ve heard her twice now and her message is strong and insistent: no excuses for not changing. In the session on curriculum mapping she managed to breathe life [...]

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Getting empowered

Well, the first thing that nearly derailed me after finally arriving in San Antonio for the ASCD Conference was the fact that I’d bought the wrong international power adapter. So, with a phone that doesn’t roam internationally, and an ipod touch that relies on the computer to charge it up, I had a panicky feeling [...]

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