Understanding by Design, Expanded Edition / Edition 2

by Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe

Overview

Understanding by Design poses the core, essential questions of understanding and design, and provides readers with practical solutions for the teacher-designer.

The book opens by analysing 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. The text proposes a multifaceted approach, with the six “facets” of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding.

The authors have successfully put together a text that demonstrates what best practice in the design of learning looks like, enhancing for its audience their capability for creating more engaging and effective learning, whether the student is a third grader, a college freshman, or a faculty member.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780131950849
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	07/14/2005
Series:	ASCD Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	210,835
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	3 Months

Table of Contents

• List of Figures.
• Preface.
• Acknowledgements.
• Introduction.
• 1. Backward Design.
• 2. Understanding Understanding.
• 3. Gaining Clarity on Our Goals.
• 4. The Six Facets of Understanding.
• 5. Essential Questions: Doorways to Understanding.
• 6. Crafting Understandings.
• 7. Thinking like an Assessor.
• 8. Criteria and Validity.
• 9. Planning for Learning.
• 10. Teaching for Understanding.
• 11. The Design Process.
• 12. The Big Picture: UbD as Curriculum Framework.
• 13. "Yes, but..."
• Afterword: Getting Started.
• Appendix: Sample 6-Page Template.
• Endnotes.
• Glossary.
• Bibliography.
• Index.
• About the Authors.