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Summary:

"What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike."--Publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Backward design
• Understanding understanding
• Gaining clarity on our goals
• The six facets of understanding
• Essential questions : doorways to understanding
• Crafting understandings
• Thinking like an assessor
• Criteria and validity
• Planning for learning
• Teaching for understanding
• The design process
• The big picture : UBD as curriculum framework
• "Yes, but
• "

Author/Creator:

Wiggins, Grant P., 1950- , author

Contributors:

McTighe, Jay , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Understanding by design [by Wiggins, G.P.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Understanding by design [by Wiggins, G.P.] (Expanded 2nd ed.; Alexandria, VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, ©2005 — ISBN 1416600353; LCCN 2004021131; OCLC Number 56491025)

Subjects:

Curriculum planning — United States

Curriculum-based assessment — United States

Learning

Comprehension

Curriculum planning

Curriculum-based assessment

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 370 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB2806.15 .W54 2005eb

ISBNs:

9781416602231 (electronic book)
1416602232 (electronic book)
9781416602255 (electronic book)
1416602259 (electronic book)
9781416602248 (electronic book)
1416602240 (electronic book)
9781416600350 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
1416600353 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
0131950843 [Invalid]
9780131950849 [Invalid]
1280933046
9781280933042
9786610933044
6610933049

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2004021131

OCLC Numbers:

60756429