Understanding By Design Handbook

Author : Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416600350

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Understanding by Design by Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

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.

Author : Grant Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416613305

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The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units by Grant Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units offers instructional modules on the basic concepts and elements of Understanding by Design (UbD), the "backward design" approach used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students' understanding of important ideas. The eight modules are organized around the UbD Template Version 2.0 and feature components similar to what is typically provided in a UbD design workshop, including— * Discussion and explanation of key ideas in the module; * Guiding exercises, worksheets, and design tips; * Examples of unit designs; * Review criteria with prompts for self-assessment; and * A list of resources for further information. This guide is intended for K-16 educators—either individuals or groups—who may have received some training in UbD and want to continue their work independently; those who've read Understanding by Design and want to design curriculum units but have no access to formal training; graduate and undergraduate students in university curriculum courses; and school and district administrators, curriculum directors, and others who facilitate UbD work with staff. Users can go through the modules in sequence or skip around, depending on their previous experience with UbD and their preferred curriculum design style or approach. Unit creation, planning, and adaptation are easier than ever with the accompanying downloadable resources, including the UbD template set up as a fillable PDF form, additional worksheets, examples, and FAQs about the module topics that speak to UbD novices and veterans alike.

Author : Jay McTighe,Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher : Assn for Supervision & Curriculum
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0871203405

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Understanding by Design Handbook by Jay McTighe,Grant P. Wiggins Pdf

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, p, e, i, s, t.

Author : Jay McTighe,Grant Wiggins
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416615705

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Essential Questions by Jay McTighe,Grant Wiggins Pdf

What are "essential questions," and how do they differ from other kinds of questions? What's so great about them? Why should you design and use essential questions in your classroom? Essential questions (EQs) help target standards as you organize curriculum content into coherent units that yield focused and thoughtful learning. In the classroom, EQs are used to stimulate students' discussions and promote a deeper understanding of the content. Whether you are an Understanding by Design (UbD) devotee or are searching for ways to address standards—local or Common Core State Standards—in an engaging way, Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins provide practical guidance on how to design, initiate, and embed inquiry-based teaching and learning in your classroom. Offering dozens of examples, the authors explore the usefulness of EQs in all K-12 content areas, including skill-based areas such as math, PE, language instruction, and arts education. As an important element of their backward design approach to designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment, the authors *Give a comprehensive explanation of why EQs are so important; *Explore seven defining characteristics of EQs; *Distinguish between topical and overarching questions and their uses; *Outline the rationale for using EQs as the focal point in creating units of study; and *Show how to create effective EQs, working from sources including standards, desired understandings, and student misconceptions. Using essential questions can be challenging—for both teachers and students—and this book provides guidance through practical and proven processes, as well as suggested "response strategies" to encourage student engagement. Finally, you will learn how to create a culture of inquiry so that all members of the educational community—students, teachers, and administrators—benefit from the increased rigor and deepened understanding that emerge when essential questions become a guiding force for learners of all ages.

Author : Jay McTighe,Steve Ferrara
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807765401

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Assessing Student Learning by Design by Jay McTighe,Steve Ferrara Pdf

"How might we might help teachers use classroom assessments to gather appropriate evidence for all valued learning goals? How might our classroom assessments serve to promote learning, not just measure it? This book addresses these questions by offering a practical and proven Assessment Planning Framework. The Framework examines four different types of learning goals, considers various purposes and audiences for assessment, reviews five categories of assessment methods, and presents options for communicating results. This updated edition addresses the assessment of academic standards as well as transdisciplinary outcomes (e.g., 21st century skills), and describes the principles and practices underlying standards-based grading"--

Author : Amy J. Heineke,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416626145

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Using Understanding by Design in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classroom by Amy J. Heineke,Jay McTighe Pdf

How can today's teachers, whose classrooms are more culturally and linguistically diverse than ever before, ensure that their students achieve at high levels? How can they design units and lessons that support English learners in language development and content learning—simultaneously? Authors Amy Heineke and Jay McTighe provide the answers by adding a lens on language to the widely used Understanding by Design® framework (UbD® framework) for curriculum design, which emphasizes teaching for understanding, not rote memorization. Readers will learn the components of the UbD framework; the fundamentals of language and language development; how to use diversity as a valuable resource for instruction by gathering information about students’ background knowledge from home, community, and school; how to design units and lessons that integrate language development with content learning in the form of essential knowledge and skills; and how to assess in ways that enable language learners to reveal their academic knowledge. Student profiles, real-life classroom scenarios, and sample units and lessons provide compelling examples of how teachers in all grade levels and content areas use the UbD framework in their culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Combining these practical examples with findings from an extensive research base, the authors deliver a useful and authoritative guide for reaching the overarching goal: ensuring that all students have equitable access to high-quality curriculum and instruction.

Author : Vanessa Gardner Nagel
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604692563

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Understanding Garden Design by Vanessa Gardner Nagel Pdf

Designing a garden is a complex task. Where do you start? What kind of skills do you need? What are the logical steps in creating a design? How do you communicate your ideas to a client, and how do you accommodate a client’s requests while maintaining the integrity of the project? The answers to these questions, and many more, can all be found in Understanding Garden Design. Most books on garden design focus on only one or a few aspects of garden design—choosing plants or creating a hardscape, for example. This comprehensive, accessible book lays out the entire process from start to finish in clear, precise language that avoids the pitfalls of “designspeak.” In fact, garden owners and clients of garden designers who want to understand more about the designer’s craft will be able to profit from the book’s lessons. Among the many topics covered are how to document a site, how to determine what a client needs and wants from the garden, how to take architectural features into consideration, how to think about circulation and lay out paths, how to use basic design principles, how to work with plants, and how to create a final design. Practical aspects are clearly laid out, including working with contractors and staying on top of the various phases of construction. This thorough handbook is profusely illustrated with helpful photographs and diagrams. A particularly interesting tool is the hypothetical garden plan that appears in each chapter to show how to apply the topics at hand. A practical, logical approach to the planning, design, and installation of a garden, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students, landscape professionals, and garden designers.

Author : Richard Poulin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781592538256

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The Language of Graphic Design by Richard Poulin Pdf

'The Language of Graphic Design' provides graphic design students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental elements and principles of their language, what they are, why they are important and how to use them effectively.

Author : Jennifer Visocky O'Grady,Ken O'Grady
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781616739386

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A Designer's Research Manual by Jennifer Visocky O'Grady,Ken O'Grady Pdf

Doing research can make all the difference between a great design and a good design. By engaging in competitive intelligence, customer profiling, color and trend forecasting, etc., designers are able to bring something to the table that reflects a commercial value for the client beyond a well-crafted logo or brochure. Although scientific and analytical in nature, research is the basis of all good design work. This book provides a comprehensive manual for designers on what design research is, why it is necessary, how to do research, and how to apply it to design work.

Author : Jay McTighe,Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Comprehension
ISBN : 1741016940

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Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook by Jay McTighe,Grant P. Wiggins Pdf

Author : Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Comprehension
ISBN : 0871203863

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Understanding by Design by Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

Author : Jay McTighe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1416627413

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The Fundamentals of Understanding by Design (Quick Reference Guide) by Jay McTighe Pdf

Millions of teachers worldwide use the Understanding by Design® (UbD) curriculum planning framework to create units of instruction that develop and deepen student learning. This quick reference guide from UbD co-creator Jay McTighe covers UbD's key tenets and three-stage "backward design" process and introduces the framework's design templates and quality standards. It also explains key vocabulary and explores essential aspects of unit construction, including* Focusing instruction and assessment on "big ideas" and essential questions;* Creating authentic performance tasks that reveal evidence of understanding; and* Designing meaningful learning events that help students acquire targeted knowledge and skills, understand important ideas, and be prepared to transfer those understandings to meet new challenges in and beyond the classroom.Featuring FAQs, indicators of success, and links to additional resources, The Fundamentals of Understanding by Design is for anyone looking to get started with UbD and for current users seeking a handy resource to keep their design work on track.8.5" x 11" 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

Author : Stan Ruecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789383587

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Design and the Digital Humanities by Stan Ruecker Pdf

Author : Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416611493

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The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-quality Units by Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

This book introduces version 2.0 of the UbD Template and allows you to download fillable electronic forms to help you more easily incorporate standards, advance your understanding of backward design, and improve student learning.

Author : John L. Brown
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780871208606

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Making the Most of Understanding by Design by John L. Brown Pdf

Explores how schools and districts can leverage the Understanding by Design model's principles and strategies to improve student achievement, staff performance, and organizational productivity.