Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition
by: Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe
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The highly anticipated second edition of Understanding by Design poses the core, essential questions of understanding and design, and provides readers with practical solutions for the teacher-designer.The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans.Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction.The book proposes a multifaceted approach, with the six “facets” of understanding.The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding.The second edition, a refined work, has been thoroughly and extensively revised, updated, and expanded, including improvement of the UbD Template, the key terms of UbD, dozens of worksheets, and some of the larger concepts. The authors have successfully put together a text that demonstrates what best practice in the design of learning looks like, enhancing for its audience their capability for creating more engaging and effective learning, whether the student is a third grader, a college freshman, or a faculty member.
The highly anticipated second edition of Understanding by Design poses the core, essential questions of understanding and design, and provides readers with practical solutions for the teacher-designer.The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans.Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction.The book proposes a multifaceted approach, with the six “facets” of understanding.The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding.The second edition, a refined work, has been thoroughly and extensively revised, updated, and expanded, including improvement of the UbD Template, the key terms of UbD, dozens of worksheets, and some of the larger concepts. The authors have successfully put together a text that demonstrates what best practice in the design of learning looks like, enhancing for its audience their capability for creating more engaging and effective learning, whether the student is a third grader, a college freshman, or a faculty member.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- A must for instructional designers
Wiggins and McTighe guide educators to think about meaningful outcomes.This book and the edition before it have been instrumental in supporting the professional development of my museum educators.
Rating: 
- Waste of money!
This review is about: "Understanding by Design - Study Guide". I bought this book, because the reviews suggested it was the real thing. But it is a thin volume with study questions for the original.
A lot of money wasted, because there is no way to send it back from Germany.
Rating: 
- Understanding By Design
I think the premise of the book was excellent, but the manner in which it was presented was, at times, redundant.I think the authors could have made the book more concise and to the point. From time to time, it seemed like the authors were simply caught up in the verbage and not an effective point.
Rating: - Somewhat helpful book
For new teachers like myself, this is a useful guide to a new way of designing lesson/unit plans.Good Luck!
Rating: - 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.
- A must for instructional designersWiggins and McTighe guide educators to think about meaningful outcomes.This book and the edition before it have been instrumental in supporting the professional development of my museum educators.
- Waste of money!This review is about: "Understanding by Design - Study Guide". I bought this book, because the reviews suggested it was the real thing. But it is a thin volume with study questions for the original.
A lot of money wasted, because there is no way to send it back from Germany.
- Understanding By DesignI think the premise of the book was excellent, but the manner in which it was presented was, at times, redundant.I think the authors could have made the book more concise and to the point. From time to time, it seemed like the authors were simply caught up in the verbage and not an effective point.
- Somewhat helpful bookFor new teachers like myself, this is a useful guide to a new way of designing lesson/unit plans.Good Luck!
- Practical and UsefulThis 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.
