Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and KidsTeachers struggle every day to bring quality instruction to their students. Beset by lists of content standards and accompanying "high-stakes" accountability tests, many educators sense that both teaching and learning have been redirected in ways that are potentially impoverishing for those who teach and those who learn. Educators need a model that acknowledges the centrality of standards but also ensures that students truly understand content and can apply it in meaningful ways. For many educators, Understanding by Design addresses that need. Simultaneously, teachers find it increasingly difficult to ignore the diversity of the learners who populate their classrooms. Few teachers find their work effective or satisfying when they simply "serve up" a curriculum--even an elegant one--to students with no regard for their varied learning needs. For many educators, Differentiated Instruction offers a framework for addressing learner variance as a critical component of instructional planning. In this book the two models converge, providing readers fresh perspectives on two of the greatest contemporary challenges for educators: crafting powerful curriculum in a standards-dominated era and ensuring academic success for the full spectrum of learners. Each model strengthens the other. Understanding by Design is predominantly a curriculum design model that focuses on what we teach. Differentiated Instruction focuses on whom we teach, where we teach, and how we teach. Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe show you how to use the principles of backward design and differentiation together to craft lesson plans that will teach essential knowledge and skills for the full spectrum of learners. Connecting content and kids in meaningful ways is what teachers strive to do every day. In tandem, UbD and DI help educators meet that goal by providing structures, tools, and guidance for developing curriculum and instruction that bring to students the best of what we know about effective teaching and learning. |
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... essential questions : " How can I get to know my students and their needs ? " " What is most important and enduring for my students to learn about this topic ? " " How can I ensure that each of my students learns as effectively and ...
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Contents
An Essential Partnership | 1 |
What Really Matters in Teaching? The Students | 12 |
What Really Matters in Learning? Content | 24 |
What Really Matters in Planning for Student Success? | 38 |
Considering Evidence of Learning in Diverse Classrooms | 59 |
Responsive Teaching with UbD in Academically Diverse Classrooms | 83 |
Teaching for Understanding in Academically Diverse Classrooms | 108 |
Grading and Reporting Achievement | 128 |
Curriculum and Instruction Through the Lens of UbD and DI | 141 |
Moving Forward to Integrate UbD and DI | 166 |
Appendix | 173 |
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About the Authors | 196 |
Other editions - View all
Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design ... Carol Ann Tomlinson,Jay McTighe,The ASCD No preview available - 2019 |
Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design ... Carol Anne Tomlinson,Jay McTighe No preview available - 2006 |