2001 Merrill Education/ASCD College Textbook Series -- Understanding by Design (P) by Grant Wiggins &amp; Jay McTighe ***ISBN-13: 9780130930583 ***201 Pages

Understanding by Design

Education & Teaching

McTighe, Jay

Wiggins, Grant

Schools & Teaching

PRENTICE/HALL

The highly anticipated second edition of 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 analyzing 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 book 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 second edition, a refined work, has been thoroughly and extensively revised, updated, and expanded, including improvement of the UbD Template, the key terms of UbD, dozens of worksheets, and some of the larger concepts. 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.

Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition(Package May Vary)

Pearson

Here is the practical and comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about rubrics, scoring guides and performance criteria. This book provides practical steps for developing and using rubrics to assess student performance on challenging and necessary targets including writing, math problem solving, and reading. This book includes 15 of the author's favorite rubrics covering all grade levels and subject areas.

Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom (Experts in Assessment)

Arter, Judith A.

Allyn&Bacon

Discover how two of education's most powerful frameworks can team up to provide your school with a comprehensive and in-depth approach to ensure all students are learning at maximum levels. 
The leading experts on Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design explain how to connect these two approaches and use their combined power to: 
<ul>
<li>Meet content standards and prepare for high-stakes tests while providing students with multiple learning pathways. </li>
<li>Use the backward design approach to develop curriculum units and lessons that can be differentiated in response to students' different readiness levels, abilities, and learning styles. </li>
<li>Combine drill and practice with differentiated performance tasks to inspire understanding of content. </li>
<li>Create a fair, criterion-referenced assessment approach that supports standards and differentiation. </li> </ul>
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.

Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids (Pearson Teacher Education/ Ascd College Textbook)

Tomlinson, Carol Ann

ASCD, The

Whether you are an experienced curriculum designer or new to Understanding by Design® (UbD), you will benefit from the latest design tools and the updated UbD unit Template 2.0. UbD authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe share their insights and the practical tips that have helped thousands of educators design curriculum based on the UbD framework. The Guide features a set of modules containing guiding worksheets and exercises that take you through the three-stage unit design process to: 
<ul>
<li>Identify Transfer and Meaning-Making goals (Stage 1).</li> <li>Develop performance tasks to assess understanding (Stage 2).</li> <li>Use the A-M-T construct to create more focused and powerful lessons (Stage 3).</li> </ul>The new UbD Template is illustrated with fresh unit samples, and readers have access to more than 100 additional pages of online resources, including additional unit examples and helpful responses to frequently asked questions. Both novices and veterans alike will unquestionably benefit from this newest resource in the UbD series.

The Understanding By Design Guide To Creating High-Quality Units (Pearson Teacher Education / Ascd College Textbook Series)

Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom: Using Performance Criteria for Assessing and Improving Student Performance (Experts In Assessment Series)

This book offers a practical approach to assessing challenging but necessary performance tasks like creative writing, "real-world" research projects, and cooperative group activities.

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Corwin

Assessing Student Learning by Design: Principles and Practices for Teachers and School Leaders

How can we help teachers use classroom assessments to gather appropriate evidence for all valued learning goals, and to use those assessments not just to measure learning but to promote it? This book provides an answer in a practical, proven, and principled Assessment Planning Framework that moves away from solely multiple-choice tests toward a wide range of approaches to classroom assessment activities, including performance-based assessments. The Framework examines four different types of learning goals, considers various purposes and audiences for assessment information, reviews five categories of classroom assessment methods, and presents options for communicating actionable results. To the authors, the primary purpose of classroom assessment is to inform teaching and learning, rather than simply to assign grades. This concise resource will be a reliable go-to reference for teachers, school leaders, mentors, and coaches in guiding classroom assessment practices and understanding their underlying principles. Book Features: <ul> <li>Builds on the classic book Understanding by Design, written by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.</li> <li>Offers a practical, nontechnical presentation appropriate for teacher preparation and busy practitioners (K-16).</li> <li>Explores different purposes for, and methods of, classroom assessment and grading.</li> <li>Addresses assessment of academic standards as well as transdisciplinary outcomes, such as 21st-century skills.</li> <li>Describes the principles and practices underlying standards-based grading.</li> </ul>

Ferrara, Steve

Teachers' College Press

How can we help teachers use classroom assessments to gather appropriate evidence for all valued learning goals, and to use those assessments not just to measure learning but to promote it? This book provides an answer in a practical, proven, and unique Assessment Planning Framework that moves away from solely multiple-choice tests toward a wide range of approaches to classroom assessment activities, including performance-based assessments. This user-friendly guide will help pre- and inservice teachers to match assessments to purpose, goals, and content; select appropriate tasks; communicate productive feedback to students and parents; and use assessment results to inform instruction. School leaders will find it a practical guide for improving schoolwide assessment practices, as well as supporting teachers and orienting new staff. Assessing Student Learning by Design encourages educators to use classroom assessment as a way to inform teaching and learning, rather than simply to assign grades. 
Book Features: Builds on the classic book Understanding by Design, written by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Offers a practical, nontechnical presentation appropriate for teacher preparation and busy practitioners (K–16). Explores different purposes for, and methods of, classroom assessment and grading. Addresses assessment of academic standards as well as transdisciplinary outcomes, such as 21st-century skills. Describes the principles and practices underlying standards-based grading.

The authors provide a brief introduction to the Dimensions of Learning instructional model and then explain how it relates to lifelong learning standards and the content standards being developed in mathematics, science, and other subjects. They include numerous examples of performance tasks that help students meet standards by requiring them to actively construct knowledge for themselves.
Teachers will especially appreciate the book's many rubrics, which are four-point scales that teachers can use not only to assess student performance on various tasks related to the five dimensions of learning, but also to provide descriptive feedback that can help students improve their performance. The book is printed in an 8" x 10" format so readers can easily photocopy the rubrics and blank assessment forms in Part Two of the book.

Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model

Marzano, Robert J.

Pickering, Debra J.

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Dev.

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowing? What do we want students to understand and be able to do? What enduring knowledge is worth understanding? How will we know that students truly understand and can apply knowledge in a meaningful way? How can we design our courses and units to emphasize understanding and "uncoverage" rather than "coverage"? Understanding by Design explores these questions and provides practical solutions for the teacher-designer. 
The book opens by analyzing 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. 
Authors Wiggins and McTighe propose a multifaceted approach, with the six "facets" of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, practical framework for designing curriculum, assessment, and instruction. 
Beyond its theories, Understanding by Design offers practical design tools, including criteria for selecting "big ideas" worthy of deep understanding, strategies for framing units of study around essential questions, a continuum of assessment methods for determining the degree to which students understand, and the WHERE framework, which enhances student engagement and "rethinking." The book concludes with a unit design template and standards to support quality control at the local level. 
Understanding by Design will help educators enhance their understanding of understanding, so that the curriculum and assessments they design truly focus on enhancing the understanding of their students.

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development

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Understanding by Design

Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition(Package May Vary)

Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom (Experts in Assessment)

Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids (Pearson Teacher Education/ Ascd College Textbook)

The Understanding By Design Guide To Creating High-Quality Units (Pearson Teacher Education / Ascd College Textbook Series)

Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom: Using Performance Criteria for Assessing and Improving Student Performance (Experts In Assessment Series)

Assessing Student Learning by Design: Principles and Practices for Teachers and School Leaders

Assessing Student Learning by Design: Principles and Practices for Teachers and School Leaders

Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model

Understanding by Design