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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 text 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.
TITLE: Understanding by Design
AUTHOR: Grant P. Wiggins
SKU: 9780131950849
PUBLISHER: Pearson Education (US)
DATE PUBLISHED: 14/07/2005
PLACE PUBLISHED: United States
PAGES: 384
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 210 mm x 270 mm x 150 mm
WEIGHT: 684 gr
