Five Strategies to More Effectively Develop Students’ Real World Thinking Skills

We’re seeing increased demand in the world and the workplace for complex thinking skills, but in education, we often struggle to teach these competencies. In this episode, we discuss three barriers and explore five strategies that can help surmount them.

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Jay McTighe has co-authored 14 books, including the award-winning and best-selling “Understanding by Design” series with Grant Wiggins. He recently co-authored Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making with Harvey Silver. He is the director of the Maryland Assessment Consortium, a state collaboration of school districts working together to develop and share formative performance assessments.

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