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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 375.001 EAN: 9780131950849 ISBN: 0131950843 Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2005-07-24 Publisher: Prentice Hall Studio: Prentice Hall
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Somewhat helpful book Comment: For new teachers like myself, this is a useful guide to a new way of designing lesson/unit plans. Good Luck! Customer Rating: Summary: Practical and Useful Comment: 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. Customer Rating: Summary: Fresh approach to curriculum design Comment: 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 standards. This means the fun activities, state standards, and building or district level lesson plan formats all work with their system--they just remind us all to figure out the purpose of a lesson before committing the "twin sins" of merely entertaining the students or covering the material. Customer Rating: Summary: Understanding Unit Design Comment: 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. Customer Rating: Summary: Understanding By Design Comment: I bought this book because I needed to learn about UbD's for my new district this year. I thought that the book was well laid out and gave you a great framework for the UbD's but there was so much flab in between. There were a lot of pages that I felt like I could skip through. I do not know if that is because I graduated with an Education degree and therefore I knew most of the things they said in this book or if it because it repeats itself a lot. Overall I think this book is great for college students just starting in the profession.
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