Understanding By Design
Jay McTighe provides a lot of expertise from a long and diversified career in teaching. He was the Director of the Maryland Assessment Consortium, a state collaboration of school districts dedicated to developing and sharing formative performance evaluations.
Authentic Education's President is Grant Wiggins, EdD, of Hopewell, New Jersey. Harvard University awarded him an Ed.D., and St. John's College in Annapolis awarded him a B.A.
What exactly is comprehension, and how does it differ from knowledge? How do we identify the big ideas worth comprehending? What is the significance of understanding as a teaching aim, and how do we know when students have achieved it? In today's high-stakes, standards-based climate, how can we build a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on comprehension and leads to enhanced student performance?
In this second edition of Understanding by Design, authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other issues. The authors have considerably improved and expanded their initial work to aid educators throughout the K-16 spectrum in the creation of curriculum, assessment, and instruction, based on feedback from thousands of educators worldwide who have used the UbD framework since its launch in 1998. With an updated UbD Template as its core, the book discusses the rationale of backward design and delves deeper into key concepts like essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will discover why the traditional coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fail, and how a focus on the six dimensions of knowledge can enhance student learning. The book explains how the research-based ideas of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as specific units of curriculum, using an expanded array of practical tactics, resources, and examples from all subject areas.
This new edition of Understanding by Design, which combines innovative ideas, critical analysis, and tried-and-true methodologies, provides teacher-designers with a clear path to creating curriculum that promotes improved learning and a more stimulating experience for students and instructors alike. The book is among the best books on educational assessment.
Author: Jay McTighe and Grant P. Wiggins
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Design-Grant-Wiggins/dp/1416600353/
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