Upgrade Your Teaching

Jay McTighe and Judy Willis, the authors, integrate research findings into useful knowledge for use in schools at all levels and in all subject areas. Educators at all levels can learn how to create and implement units that enable teachers and students to take advantage of the brain's enormous learning capacity with their help.

How can educators use neuroscience research to better understand how the brain learns? How can we use this data to improve curriculum, instruction, and evaluation so that our students have a thorough mastery of all subjects? "Upgrade Your Teaching: Design Thinking Meets Understanding Comprehension" by Design (UbD), a framework used by thousands of educators to create units of instruction and realistic assessments that stress understanding rather than recollection, combines neuroscience discoveries with Understanding by Design (UbD) to answer these issues.

Readers will learn: How the brain interprets incoming data and decides what is (or is not) stored in long-term memory; What elements determine student motivation and willingness to put out effort, according to brain science; How to fully engage all pupils by providing a task that is both relevant and feasible; How neuroscience research supports fundamental components of UbD, such as backward design, essential questions, and transfer tasks; Why certain teaching and assessment methods are beneficial in assisting kids in gaining the knowledge, skills, and deep understanding they require to succeed in school and beyond; and How to build a learning environment that is conducive to long-term learning.

Authors: Jay McTighe, Judy Willis

Publisher: ASCD (April 10, 2019)
Language: English
Link to buy: amazon.com/Upgrade-Your-Teaching-Understanding-Neuroscience/dp/1416627340