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  • 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.

    • Understanding by Design

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    Author:
    Grant P Wiggins
    Binding:
    Paperback
    Language:
    English
    Book Type:
    Professional
    Subject:
    Curriculum
    Copyright:
    2005

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    Implementing popular Understanding by Design® (UbD™) framework is much easier when you use this in-depth resource for workshops, curriculum teams, and teacher training. This collection of templates, design tools, examples, and exercises helps you give all staff members a firm grasp of key UbD principles, including

    • How to use backward design to align curriculum with assessment and instruction.
    • Why to focus curriculum on the “big ideas” in your content standards.
    • Which learning activities are more apt to enable students to achieve desired results.

    Give staff members at all levels clear action steps they need in every stage of the UbD process, including

    • Drafting curriculum units based on essential questions.
    • Creating performance tasks and rubrics for assessing student understanding in any subject.
    • Organizing, sequencing, and guiding classroom learning experiences.

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    Author Grant P Wiggins
    Binding Paperback
    Language English
    Book Type Professional
    Subject Curriculum
    Copyright 2005

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