Essential Questions

Essential Questions
Title Essential Questions PDF eBook
Author Jay McTighe
Publisher ASCD
Pages 130
Release 2013
Genre Education
ISBN 1416615059

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This book from the authors of Understanding by Design explores how to design and frame essential questions that prompt students to think deeply and create a more stimulating environment for learning.




Essential Questions

Essential Questions
Title Essential Questions PDF eBook
Author Jay McTighe
Publisher ASCD
Pages 130
Release 2013-03-27
Genre Education
ISBN 1416615709

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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; and *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.




Schooling by Design

Schooling by Design
Title Schooling by Design PDF eBook
Author Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher ASCD
Pages 297
Release 2007
Genre Education
ISBN 1416606556

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The authors of Understanding by Design share a compelling strategy for creating schools that truly fulfill the central mission of education: to help students become "thoughtful, productive, and accomplished at worthy tasks."




Understanding by Design

Understanding by Design
Title Understanding by Design PDF eBook
Author Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher ASCD
Pages 383
Release 2005
Genre Education
ISBN 1416600353

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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.




Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum

Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum
Title Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum PDF eBook
Author Susan M. Drake
Publisher Corwin Press
Pages 233
Release 2012-05-08
Genre Education
ISBN 1452218803

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In this completely revised and updated edition of Susan Drake's classic text on integrated curriculum, the author provides a new approach to standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment.




Teaching what Matters Most

Teaching what Matters Most
Title Teaching what Matters Most PDF eBook
Author Richard W. Strong
Publisher ASCD
Pages 148
Release 2001
Genre Education
ISBN

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Identifies four classroom standards designed to improve student performance on state tests and allow schools and teachers some creative leeway, including rigor, thought, diversity, and authenticity, each with an explanation and related teaching and assessment strategies.




Answers to Essential Questions About Standards, Assessments, Grading, and Reporting

Answers to Essential Questions About Standards, Assessments, Grading, and Reporting
Title Answers to Essential Questions About Standards, Assessments, Grading, and Reporting PDF eBook
Author Thomas R. Guskey
Publisher Corwin Press
Pages 177
Release 2013
Genre Education
ISBN 1452235244

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This is an easy to use guide on assessment for learning, answering common questions about 21st century standards and grading considerations.