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Understanding By Design Videos

with Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

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The Understanding By Design videos guide you through the steps of designing curricular units that promote students' deep content understanding and provide an overview of the powerful concepts in Understanding by Design. Interviews with teachers describe real-world applications of the unit-planning process. Classroom scenes show how the design process helps improve learning experiences and performance assessments in every grade level.

Understanding By Design Video 1Understanding By Design: What is Understanding?

This program presents Wiggins' and McTighe's multifaceted model of understanding, which is based on the premise that people can demonstrate understanding in a variety of ways.

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Understanding By Design Video 2Understanding By Design: Using the Backward Design Process

This video takes you step-by-step through the three-stage process for designing curricular units that promote deep understanding of content.

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Understanding By Design Video 3Understanding By Design: Refining Unit Designs

Use the tips and advice from the this video to ensure that your curriculum units are more apt to lead to greater student understanding of content. Discover how to expand on the design process across the curriculum to save time and quickly build your lesson and unit collection.

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Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition

Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this book, Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition, 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.

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About the Consultants

Grant Wiggins

Grant Wiggins (1950–2015) was the president of Authentic Education in Hopewell, N.J., a consulting, research, and publishing organization. He consulted with schools, districts, and state education departments on a variety of reform matters, organized conferences and workshops, and developed print materials and web resources on curricular change.

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Jay McTighe

Jay McTighe served as director of the Maryland Assessment Consortium, a state collaboration of school districts working together to develop and share formative performance assessments. Prior to this position, McTighe was involved with school improvement projects at the Maryland State Department of Education.

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