The CCDT helps you, either individually or in collaboration with others,to create or modify curriculum units that enhance teaching for understanding with new technologies. Features include:

• built-in support or scaffolding to help you integrate Teaching for Understanding principles into your curriculum design; you may call up or dispense with these support tools as you choose,

• collaborative tools to help you work with a team of designers, such as a message board, chat space and visual cues as to who last updated a particular part of the design,

• the ability to attach curriculum materials, such as worksheets, handouts and links to web pages

• the ability to add blank pages to a design for putting down your thoughts and ideas,

• the ability to add resources and standards pages which include appropriate help for integrating materials and curriculum framework standards into the design,

• support for designing and explaining ways of using new technologies to enhance TfU.

To get acquainted with the Teaching for Understanding framework select "The Framework" from the menu on the left.

To see a tutorial on how to use the CCDT, click here. (opens in new window)

To retrieve your designs select "Your Designs".

To view units that other registered members have decided to share select "ENT Member Designs".

To begin work on a new unit select "New Design".