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ERIC #:ED431760
Title:The Understanding by Design Handbook.
Authors:McTighe, JayWiggins, Grant
Descriptors:ComprehensionCurriculum DevelopmentElementary Secondary EducationEvaluation MethodsKnowledge LevelLesson PlansPeer EvaluationPlanningStudent Evaluation
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Publisher:Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1703 Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311-1714; Tel: 703-578-9600; Tel: 800-933-2723 (Toll Free); Fax: 703-575-5400; E-mail: member@ascd.org (ASCD Stock No. 199030: members $26.95, nonmembers $31.95); Web site: http://www.ascd.org
Publication Date:1999-00-00
Pages:281
Pub Types:Guides - Non-Classroom
Abstract:This handbook examines what understanding is and how it differs from knowing, discussing how teachers can know that students truly understand and can apply their knowledge in meaningful ways and how courses and units might be designed to emphasize understanding and uncoverage rather than coverage. The handbook includes a planning template, worksheets, exercises, design tools, design standards and tests, and a peer-review process for learning and applying new ideas. Handbook materials show users how to plan curriculum, assessment, and instruction. An overview of understanding includes the first three modules: (1) "Clarifying Understanding," (2) "The Backward Design Process," and (3) "The Understanding by Design Template." Stage 1, "Identify Desired Results," includes (4)"Identifying Enduring Understandings," (5) "From Topics and Skills to Understandings," and (6) "Framing Units around Essential Questions." Stage 2, "Determine Acceptable Evidence," includes (7) "Evidence of Understanding," (8) "Transforming Understandings into Performances," (9) "Designing Performance Tasks," (10) "Designing Scoring Rubrics," and (11) "Anchoring Unit Designs." Stage 3, "Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction," includes (12) "Engaging and Effective Design," (13) "Uncoverage," (14) "Misunderstanding," (15) "Where," (16) "Questions to Guide Teaching," (17) "Teaching Approaches," (18) "A Story Structure for Curriculum Design," and (19) "Curriculum as Task Analysis." A section entitled "Testing and Peer Review" includes (20) "Testing Designs Against Standards" and (21)"Peer Review." (SM)
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Record Type:Non-Journal
Level:2 - Available on microfiche
Institutions:Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA.
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Audiences:Practitioners; Teachers
Languages:English
Education Level:Elementary Secondary Education
 

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