{"id":10008,"date":"2022-12-09T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn.toddleapp.com\/?post_type=resource_post&#038;p=10008"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:09:24","slug":"design-powerful-authentic-tasks-a-guide-to-using-grasps","status":"publish","type":"resource_post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddleapp.com\/learn\/resource-post\/design-powerful-authentic-tasks-a-guide-to-using-grasps\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Powerful Authentic Tasks &#8211; A Guide to Using GRASPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Assessments are at the heart of teaching and learning &#8211; they give us the opportunity to pause, reflect, and plan for the future. Understanding what your students are really learning is a pulse-check on your teaching. But how can you be sure that you know what your students know!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">By doing authentic assessments &#8211; one where students transfer and apply their understandings and skills to real-world problems. Wondering how to create a task like that? Meet GRASPS!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Created by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, GRASPS is a powerful assessment model that helps you plan, organize, and deliver tasks that are engaging, relevant, significant, and challenging for students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">In this resource, you will get a handy resource to create performance tasks and authentic assessments for your students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group learnings has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fff6f3\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-use-this-resource-to\"><strong>Use this resource to:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create engaging and challenging performance tasks for your students&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-construct success criterias with your students&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create differentiated tasks for students&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Encourage students to think actively about where they are now, where they want to go, and how to get there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":10201,"template":"resource\/resource_post_container.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[439,440,319,316,317],"coauthors":[373],"class_list":["post-10008","resource_post","type-resource_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-american-curriculum","tag-british-curriculum","tag-english","tag-pyp","tag-ubd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Design Powerful Authentic Tasks - A Guide to Using GRASPS - Toddle Learn<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Explore a powerful framework for designing authentic and differentiated tasks using the GRASPS model. 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