Aligning Outcomes, Activities & Assessments

Aligning outcomes, activities and assessments are vital when creating a significant learning environment. Educators often preach, "start with the end in mind." Begin with your overall goal(s) or what Jim Collins and Jerry Porras refer to as your Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) and work backward. My Innovation Plan illustrates how my 8th-grade Digital Design students will use ePortfolios in class to collaborate, network, reflect, and showcase their work. Fink outlines what he refers to as 6 significant learning categories. Using Fink's planning worksheet, I was able to design a program to use with my students in order to help them create, layout, and display their work using ePortfolios. I have incorporated each of Fink's significant learning categories in the development of lessons.