Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook
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Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook
- 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.
- Give staff members at all levels clear action steps they need in every stage of the UbD process, including
- 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.
This collection of templates, design tools, examples, and exercises is an in-depth resource for Understanding by Design workshops, curriculum teams, teacher training, undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as further independent exploration. It provides a valuable resource to educators in developing curriculum and assessments with a focus on developing and deepening students' understanding of important ideas.
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