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Jay McTighe

Jay McTighe

About

Jay McTighe has a varied career in education. He served as director of the Maryland Assessment Consortium, a collaboration of school districts working to develop and share formative performance assessments and helped lead standards-based reforms at the Maryland State Department of Education. Prior to that, he helped lead Maryland’s standards-based reforms, including the development of performance-based statewide assessments.

Primary Topics

Assessment
Articles by Jay
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Assessment
The Value of Descriptive, Multi-Level Rubrics
Jay McTighe & Susan M. Brookhart et al.
3 weeks ago

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Developing Self-Directed Learners by Design
Jay McTighe & Catlin Tucker
1 year ago

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Performance Tasks or Projects? Complementary Approaches for Student Engagement
Jay McTighe & John Larmer
2 years ago

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5 Ideas for Developing Real-World Thinking Skills
Harvey F. Silver & Abigail L. Boutz et al.
2 years ago
Blogs by Jay
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Back-to-School Lessons from an Education Giant
Jay McTighe
5 years ago

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Seven Strategies for Supporting Student Learning in a Remote Environment
Jay McTighe & Giselle Martin-Kniep
4 years ago

Books by Jay

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The Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook (Print Book)

$39.95

Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding (Print Book)

$27.95

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