The Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook
Author(s): Jay McTighe
Implementing the popular Understanding by Design(R) (UbD(TM)) 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.
- 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.
Included are steps for conducting a peer review of unit designs plus process steps to guide your implementation of UbD systemwide.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
- : Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
- : 0.635
- : 01 March 2004
- : 276mm X 214mm X 12mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jay McTighe
- : Jay McTighe
- : 295
- : 295
- : 371.1
- : 371.1
- : English
- : English
- : Paperback / softback
- : Paperback / softback