Designing Authentic Performance Tasks and Projects

Jay McTighe has served as director of the Maryland Assessment Consortium, a collaboration of school districts working to develop and share formative performance assessments. And he helped lead standards-based reforms at Maryland State Department of Education. He directed development of the Instructional Framework, a multimedia database on teaching, and has coordinated statewide efforts to develop instructional strategies, curriculum models, and assessment procedures for improving the quality of student thinking. In addition, Jay has experience as a classroom teacher, resource specialist, and program coordinator. Jay has coauthored more than a dozen books, including the Understanding by Design series with Grant Wiggins and has written numerous articles. A regular workshop and conference speaker, he has made presentations throughout the world.