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Understanding by Design
Category: Education
Authors: Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe
Copyright/published Year: 1998 by ACSD
ISBN: 0871203138
Binding: paperback
What is understanding and how does it differ from knowing?
What do we want students to understand and be able to do? What
enduring knowledge is worth understanding? How will we know that
students truly understand and can apply knowledge in a meaningful
way? How can we design our courses and units to emphasize
understanding and "uncoverage" rather than "coverage"?
Understanding by Design explores these questions and provides
practical solutions for the teacher-designer.
The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an
alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Though
backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and
coherence to instruction.
Authors Wiggins and McTighe propose a multifaceted approach,
with the six "facets" of understanding. The facets combine with
backward design to provide a powerful, practical framework for
designing curriculum, assessment, and instruction.
Beyond its theories, Understanding by Design offers
practical design tools, including criteria for selecting "big
ideas" worthy of deep understanding, strategies for framing units
of study around essential questions, a continuum of assessment
methods for determining the degree to which students understand,
and the WHERE framework, which enhances student engagement and
"rethinking." The book concludes with a unit design template and
standards to support quality control at the local level.
Understanding by Design will help educators enhance their
understanding of understanding, so that the curriculum and
assessments they design truly focus on enhancing the
understanding of their students.
Condition Information
This is a used book.
Very good condition.
Condition Description
1998 paperback. Very good. Clean, unwritten in. Sound binding. Ships from Washington State.
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