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Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition
by Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe
from Prentice Hall

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Somewhat helpful book
  For new teachers like myself, this is a useful guide to a new way of designing lesson/unit plans. Good Luck!

• Practical and Useful
  This book is part of required reading for a class I am taking. So far, I've read about 3-4 chapters and the best part of this book is that the concepts it introduces can be applied right away. It's not a how-to type book - it really does force you to think about your own curriculum & content, but it does help with structure & organization of content. It's also useful if you have a difficult time "getting started" on framing out class material.

• Fresh approach to curriculum design
  I've used this book for three years in my graduate Curriculum Design courses for teachers. My students are practicing teachers who have seen dozens of lesson planning approaches and don't need some new theory just for the fun of it. But Wiggins and McTighe present a fresh perspective that doesn't so much replace as reposition traditional approaches. It boils down to what they call backward design--or identifying learning outcomes and assessments before addressing fun activities or how to meet state... more info

• Understanding Unit Design
  The book is excellent in its comprehensive scope of unit design. The size of the book is awkward but easy for making copies. The writing of the book is at times hard to read. Perhaps it's a bit too comprehensive in its scope and evaluation of unit design.

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