Understanding by Design, Expanded 2^nd Edition¶

Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition.

Type: Book
Intellectual base: Review or monograph
Year: 2005
Link: https://www.ascd.org/books/understanding-by-design-expanded-2nd-edition?variant=103055
Cited from: computer_science, organizational_management

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Primes¶

Operational Period
- Fiscal years and quarters: budgets set per period and reassessed at boundaries, with within-period movements constrained. Education: the semester or term, fixing curriculum and commitment for a period, with grading and enrolment at the boundary.
Operationalization
- In education, curriculum standards (spec: what students should know) become lesson plans, activities, and assessments.
  This sourceThe backward-design framework lowers curriculum standards (desired learning outcomes) into assessments, units, and classroom activities — the education instance of operationalization.

Mechanisms¶

Curriculum Scope-and-Sequence Ladder
- Its strength is keeping daily teaching tethered to long-range aims
  This sourceUses backward design to align daily curriculum and instruction with long-term desired understandings.
Guided Research Question
- The corrective borrows from the practice of essential questions — questions built to be genuinely arguable and revisited over time.
  This sourceCharacterizes essential questions as genuinely arguable questions intended to be revisited over time.
Prerequisite Mapping Workshop
- Name the target, then work backward. State the exact understanding or action to reach, then map the chain of concepts that must precede each other to get there, in order — the backward-design move of deriving the path from the destination.
  This sourceDefines backward design as first specifying what learners should understand or be able to do, then deriving assessment and instruction from those desired results.

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