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What are ""essential questions,"" and how do they differ from other
kinds of questions? What's so great about them? Why should you
design and use essential questions in your classroom? Essential
questions (EQs) help target standards as you organize curriculum
content into coherent units that yield focused and thoughtful
learning. In the classroom, EQs are used to stimulate students'
discussions and promote a deeper understanding of the content.
Whether you are an Understanding by Design (UbD) devotee or are
searching for ways to address standards-local or Common Core State
Standards-in an engaging way, Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins provide
practical guidance on how to design, initiate, and embed
inquiry-based teaching and learning in your classroom. Offering
dozens of examples, the authors explore the usefulness of EQs in
all K-12 content areas, including skill-based areas such as math,
PE, language instruction, and arts education. As an important
element of their backward design approach to designing curriculum,
instruction, and assessment, the authors: Give a comprehensive
explanation of why EQs are so important. Explore seven defining
characteristics of EQs. Distinguish between topical and overarching
questions and their uses. Outline the rationale for using EQs as
the focal point in creating units of study. Show how to create
effective EQs, working from sources including standards, desired
understandings, and student misconceptions. Using essential
questions can be challenging-for both teachers and students-and
this book provides guidance through practical and proven processes,
as well as suggested ""response strategies"" to encourage student
engagement. Finally, you will learn how to create a culture of
inquiry so that all members of the educational community-students,
teachers, and administrators-benefit from the increased rigor and
deepened understanding that emerge when essential questions become
a guiding force for learners of all ages.
What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How
can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is
understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when
students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and
engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to
improved student performance in today's high-stakes,
standards-based environment?Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
answer these and many other questions in this second edition of
Understanding by Design. 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. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and
activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how
a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student
learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools,
and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the
research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to
district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum.
Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested
approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers
teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that
ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for
students and teachers alike.
The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units
offers instructional modules on the basic concepts and elements of
Understanding by Design (UbD), the ""backward design"" approach
used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and
assessments that focus on developing students' understanding of
important ideas. The eight modules are organized around the UbD
Template Version 2.0 and feature components similar to what is
typically provided in a UbD design workshop, including: Discussion
and explanation of key ideas in the module. Guiding exercises,
worksheets, and design tips. Examples of unit designs. Review
criteria with prompts for self-assessment. A list of resources for
further information. This guide is intended for K-16
educators—either individuals or groups—who may have received
some training in UbD and want to continue their work independently;
those who've read Understanding by Design and want to design
curriculum units but have no access to formal training; graduate
and undergraduate students in university curriculum courses; and
school and district administrators, curriculum directors, and
others who facilitate UbD work with staff. Users can go through the
modules in sequence or skip around, depending on their previous
experience with UbD and their preferred curriculum design style or
approach. Unit creation, planning, and adaptation are easier than
ever with the accompanying downloadable resources, including the
UbD template set up as a fillable PDF form, additional worksheets,
examples, and FAQs about the module topics that speak to UbD
novices and veterans alike.
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.
Curriculum design experts Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins have
reviewed thousands of curriculum documents and unit plans across a
range of subjects and grades. In this book, they identify and
describe the 25 most common problems in unit design and recommend
how to fix them-and avoid them when planning new units. McTighe and
Wiggins, creators of the Understanding by Design (R) framework,
help you use the process of backward design to troubleshoot your
units and achieve tighter alignment and focus on learning
priorities. Whether you're working with local or national standards
or with other learning goals, you can rely on their practical and
proven solutions to promote deeper and better learning for your
students.
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