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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?
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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...
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Aimed at teachers in grades K-16, this text presents a framework for the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction that is focused on developing and deepening student understanding of important ideas. Consultants Wiggins and McTighe (both former classroom teachers) propose a "backward design" approach to planning that helps students meet standards without sacrificing bigger goals related to understanding. They also explain how individual units may be nested within a larger framework of courses...
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Understanding by Design, Jay McTighe
Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook extends the ideas presented in Understanding by Design (UbD) by focusing on professional development and the practical matters of curriculum design. The Workbook is a guide for Understanding by Design workshops and undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as further independent exploration. It provides a valuable resource to educators in developing curricula and assessments with a focus on developing and deepening students’ understanding...
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This six-lesson course overviews the principles of Understanding by Design (UbD) and will guide you in applying the design principles and strategies associated with the UbD framework. You will use the three stages of backward design to create an actual unit, critique units using evaluation criteria, and apply UbD principles to improve school-based and district curriculum.
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Now that thousands of educators use ASCD's Understanding by Design framework to create results-oriented curricula, here's your opportunity to see examples of best practice in implementing this breakthrough approach. Use the DVD in workshops, team meetings, and professional development events to take audiences to the frontlines of schools that are implementing UbD systemwide.
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How do you know when students understand something? Can you design learning experiences that make it much more likely that students understand content and apply it in meaningful ways? Since 1998, thousands of educators have used Understanding by Design to answer these questions and create more rigorous and engaging curriculums. Now, this expanded second edition gives you even more tools and strategies for results-oriented teaching:An improved template for creating curriculum units based on the breakthrough...
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Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's Understanding by Design program is a framework used by educators to design curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that leads students to deep understanding of content. Here, Brown (an educational consultant) discusses what educators have learned about implementing the program and how schools have used its principles to improve student achievement, staff performance, and organizational productivity. The work is based on data gathered from surveys...
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Making the Most of Understanding by Design
Incorporating advice and guidelines from educators throughout the United States, John Brown gives you a behind-the-scenes look at how they leverage UbD principles to enhance student learning, student achievement, staff performance, and organizational productivity.
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Teachers struggle every day to bring quality instruction to their students. Beset by lists of content standards and accompanying "high-stakes" accountability tests, many educators sense that both teaching and learning have been redirected in ways that are potentially impoverishing for those who teach and those who learn. Educators need a model that acknowledges the centrality of standards but also ensures that students truly understand content and can apply it in meaningful ways. For many educators...
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Experts Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe explain the six facets of understanding and guide you through the steps of designing curricular units that promote students' deep content understanding. Interviews with teachers describe real-world applications of the unit-planning process. Classroom scenes show how the design process helps improve learning experiences and performance assessments in every grade level.
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Teaching Methods and Materials - Classroom Plannin Education & Teaching - Teachers struggle every day to bring quality instruction to their students. Beset by lists of content standards and accompanying high-stakes accountability tests, many ... - Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids (Books)
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An improved template for creating curriculum units based on the breakthrough "backward design" method. More specific guidelines on how to frame the "big ideas" you want students to understand. Better ways to develop the "essential questions" that form the foundation of high-quality curriculum and assessment. An expanded toolbox of instructional approaches for obtaining the desired results of a lesson. More examples, across all grade levels and subjects, of how schools and districts have used...
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Tape 3: Refining Unit Designs - Use the tips and advice from this tape in the series to ensure that your curriculum units are more apt to lead to greater student understanding of content. (ASCD video, 2000) One 25-minute videotape.
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Review a three-stage "backward design" model for curriculum mapping and planning units and courses. Unpack standards to identify enduring understandings and essential questions to frame curriculum. Examine a continuum of assessment methods to use in assessing the degree of student understanding. Explore six facets of understanding and their use in creating authentic assessments. Apply the AMT and the WHERETO frameworks for designing engaging and effective instruction. Design or refine a unit...
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This six-lesson course offers a clear and accessible introduction to the UbD program. Staff developers, in particular, can use it to introduce the framework to their district. Additionally, the course can be used to help districts audit their existing curriculum management system, using UbD principles and strategies. This course will also explain the learning theory underlying Understanding by Design and introduce you to the three-circle curriculum audit.
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This six-lesson course overviews why teaching for and assessing understanding can be both challenging and critically important. It then explains each of the six facets in a separate lesson. Each lesson reinforces the relationship of the six facets to the backward design process, including how you can use them to identify desired results and improve assessment tasks and activities.
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Learn design standards and key questions that will help ensure the quality of your curriculum. Visit a unit design revision meeting to observe the refinement process in action and see how teachers share their tips for fine-tuning a unit. The program also explores how teachers can shorten design time and eliminate reinventing the wheel by sharing their unit designs through the Understanding by Design Exchange Web site database.
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Now that thousands of educators use ASCD's Understanding by Design framework to create results-oriented curricula, here's your opportunity to see examples of best practice in implementing this breakthrough approach. Use the DVD in workshops, team meetings, and professional development events to take audiences to the frontlines of schools that are implementing UbD systemwide.
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Yes you can turn three of the leading approaches to school improvement into a unified system. This DVD of a landmark session at the 2008 ASCD Summer Conference features four of the top sages of school improvement connecting their ideas:
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EBOOK Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids
Find out how a curriculum built on the goal of student understanding, integrated with instructional approaches that emphasize reaching every learner, can provide teachers with more specific teaching targets and more flexible ways to reach them.
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