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Experts Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe explain the six facets of understanding and guide you through the steps of designing curricular units that promote students' deep content understanding. Interviews with teachers describe real-world applications of the unit-planning process. Classroom scenes...

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Corporate Author: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Other Authors: Wiggins, Grant P., 1950- (Commentator), McTighe, Jay (Commentator), Kiernan, Leslie J. (Screenwriter, Producer), Frost, Frank (Screenwriter, Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2000.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Curriculum planning > United States.
Curriculum-based assessment > United States.
Learning.
Comprehension.
Learning
Évaluation centrée sur le contenu du programme > États-Unis.
Apprentissage.
Compréhension.
Curriculum-based assessment.
Curriculum planning.
United States.
Educational films.
Films éducatifs.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Experts Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe explain the six facets of understanding and guide you through the steps of designing curricular units that promote students' deep content understanding. 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. Give teachers and other audiences a fascinating overview of the powerful concepts in Understanding by Design and help them design curriculum units that promote understanding.
Item Description:A component of the Understanding by Design (UbD) Series developed with Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, based on their book "The Understanding by Design Handbook."
Originally produced in 1998 and 2000.
Physical Description:1 online resource (Streaming video files (120 min.)) : sound, color
Playing Time:01:59:30
Production Credits:Consultants, Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe ; editors, Skip Heerman, Mike Ritter, Steve Lipton, Judith F. Herbert, Henry Nickel ; camera, Steve Holloway, Pat Anderson, Sal Aridi.