Understanding how students learn and incorporating theories that best accommodate that learning is an important part of successful curriculum design and instruction. As teachers, we want to ensure our instruction is designed so that every student we teach is equally capable of learning the material presented. As educators, it is vital that we follow the advice of Grant Wiggins, who states in What’s My Job? Defining the Role of the Classroom Teacher (2010) that teachers should practice “the core obligations of successful learning: cause successful learning, cause greater interest, and make students feel competent and confident.” (15) Understanding and incorporating learning theories with which the teacher is most comfortable, and can best accommodate student learning, helps build successful curriculum design and instruction. I am a strong advocate of students learning by doing and often incorporate Bruner’s Discovery Learning theory into my curriculum planning and instruction. Today’s students are geared towards autonomy due to their deep immersion in the world of technology. My role of teacher has become one of modeler/facilitator versus direct step-by-step instruction. Bruner’s Discovery Theory, according to the Learning Theories Knowledgebase (April, 2011), enables students to “draw on his or her own past experience and existing knowledge to discover facts and relationships and new truths to be learned by interacting with the world by exploring…or performing experiments.” (1) This theory enables autonomy and encourages my students to work at their own pace as they gain knowledge. With the implementation of the Common Core State Standards into my curriculum, I often incorporate technology into my instruction. This not only provides my students an opportunity to feel more comfortable using technology, but also provides them with an opportunity to utilize the