"Instructional Shifts to Support Deeper Learning" - McTighe and Silver - notes

 One big idea that highlights "the big skills" in education (and LA classrooms):

Focus less on didactic instruction and more on active meaning making by students. Students should be “earning” understanding of critical content by actively, independently processing new material using these higher-order skills.

-    Conceptualizing abstract ideas;

-    Note-taking and summarizing;

-    Comparing;

-    Reading beyond the literal meaning;

-    Predicting and hypothesizing;

-    Visualizing, graphic representation;

-    Empathizing and perspective-taking.

“Instructional Shifts to Support Deep Learning” by Jay McTighe and Harvey Silver in Educational Leadership, September 2020 (Vol. 78, #1);