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Author: Grant P. Wiggins Publisher: ASCD ISBN: 1416600353 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 383
Book Description
What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design 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.
Author: Grant P. Wiggins Publisher: ASCD ISBN: 1416600353 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 383
Book Description
What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design 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.
Author: Max Velmans Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1315516764 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 243
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In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. In this volume Max Velmans reflects on his long-spanning and varied career, considers the highs and lows in a brand new introduction and offers reactions to those who have responded to his published work over the years. This book offers a unique and compelling collection of the best publications in consciousness studies from one of the few psychologists to treat the topic systematically and seriously. Velmans’ approach is multi-faceted and represents a convergence of numerous fields of study – culminating in fascinating insights that are of interest to philosopher, psychologist and neuroscientist alike. With continuing contemporary relevance, and significant historical impact, this collection of works is an essential resource for all those engaged or interested in the field of consciousness studies and the philosophy of the mind.
Author: Chung-ying Cheng Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438479298 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 550
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In The Primary Way, the distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy Chung-ying Cheng synthesizes his lifetime of work on the Yijing, also known as the I Ching or Book of Changes. Cheng offers a systematic engagement with the classic Chinese text as a philosophy that is still valuable and relevant today. In contemporary philosophical terms, Cheng has developed the ontological hermeneutics of the Yijing as well as its philosophical methodology of symbolic reference in a holistic and onto-generative system of trigrams and hexagrams. The book is organized around eight themes that illuminate Cheng's interpretation of the Yijing as a philosophy for creative human action and transformation. He demonstrates how the philosophy of change in the Yijing embodies early Chinese ontology, cosmology, epistemology, and virtue ethics in the interpretation of divinatory judgments. Cheng's work shows how the philosophy of change contains a vision of humanity as creatively related to heaven and earth, and how it gives positive meaning to any change as part of a ceaseless creativity. With this understanding, it enables humanity to develop its potential as a partner of heaven and earth.
Author: John Sherrodd Publisher: Blackstone Publishing ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 149
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Conflict is something that many people shy away from or avoid altogether. Others are ready for battle at the first sign of conflict and immediately begin strategizing their approach to victory. No matter the approach, the outcome is usually the same—a disconnect. The real loss is often the relationship. A Deeper Connection is a guide to transforming how you think about conflict, yourself, and your approach to life. This book provides lasting transformation that can fix many of the problems you are encountering in your relationships. This book details a system for approaching and resolving conflict with ease. In this book, you will discover: A path to emotional freedom A system to shed burdens and doubts about how you feel about your relationship The clarity to see how easy it is to experience conflict with a healthy outcome Imagine gaining insight into how you have historically viewed your world. By understanding the impact of your views, you will be on the path to improving your quality of life. By developing a new understanding of yourself, you will achieve a deeper intimacy in your relationships. This book is designed to enable you with the superpower to address any conflict you come across with confidence.
Author: Carla Morris Weis MD Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 183
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The Power of Moving Forward is a book written for anyone navigating through life’s changes. Dr. Carla has created a guidebook using ancient wisdom illuminating the individual stages of life development. Through accessing this same ancient wisdom, she provides guidance on successfully traveling through your individual life course. This book is entertaining, educational, and thought provoking. Whether you feel on top of the world, or are struggling to survive, this book has insights that will inspire you to transform into the person you were truly meant to be. Mary Tobin, PhD (Holistic Medicine) Author, “Holistic Healing Power” *** Within the ordinary life is the raw material for gold. Carla Weis uses her personal story to help us see the potential that exists when a life is honored and excavated for its deep wisdom. As an initiate, she helps to draw the connects between the natural evolution of our life’s unfolding and the potential that exists in all of us to reach new levels of spiritual awareness. How do we become an embodied spiritual being? Who is privileged with this opportunity? Carla Weis demonstrates how the natural unfolding of life can hold all the raw materials for realizing one’s true self and purpose. That we are all this privileged; we just need to know how to look. Whether powerful and miraculous or mundane and commonplace, the eyes with which we look at the foundational material of our life makes all the difference in what we can make from this raw material. Carla Weis uses her life story, told with both simplicity and almost nonchalant introspection to help us see how the truth of who we are is concealed, and then can be revealed and made conscious as we journey through our life. And when and if we are ready, what we can do to bring our raw essence into self-realization. Kate Siner , PhD (Psychology) Co-Author with Jack Canfield Host, Real Answers Podcast
Author: Galia Patt-Shamir Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739111918 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 362
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To Broaden the Way suggests that the texts of both the Jewish and Confucian tradition talk in riddles of a special kind: riddles, which are introduced - and answered - by religious forms of life. Using a 'dialogue of riddles, ' Galia Patt-Shamir presents a comparative perspective of Confucianism and Judaism regarding the relatedness between contradictory expressions in texts and living conflicts. The Confucian riddle is characterized here as a mystery to be deciphered by self-reflection, under the assumptions of a harmonious community, and a unity of being. The Jewish riddle is characterized as a test to be responded to, under the assumption of a disharmonious community, and a necessary rapture in reality. This book expands the dialogue between traditions, and offers both a method and an implication of the question, 'what is religion about?
Author: Ron Ritchhart Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118015010 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 320
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A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon. Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms.
Author: Prarthana Girish Chawda Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 62
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This book is dedicated to my mother who is watching me from heaven and always wanted me to publish my book. She was my inspiration for writing books. This book is all about how we can make our lives easier by understanding basic concepts with examples and make our life’s journey more enjoyable. Life is too short to crib around and stay unhappy. This is my small effort towards sharing some experiences and learning I had which taught me life’s lessons hard way. Frankly speaking I use to hate reading books which have too many pages. I was a bit lazy to complete any book I start reading. So, looking at my own situation I drafted this book taking into consideration of all those audience who might not be willing to read huge bulky and heavy books. I have tried to keep it concise and tried to hit the nail on the point in simple language considering all age groups. Please forgive me if I may have unintentional hurt anyone’s belief system in anyway by sharing my experience and knowledge. Examples and characters used are hypothetical. I thank my father and brother for their support in all challenging phase of my life.
Author: Grant P. Wiggins
Author: Grant P. Wiggins
Author: Max Velmans
Author: Sandra Harris
Author: Chung-ying Cheng
Author: John Sherrodd
Author: Carla Morris Weis MD
Author: Galia Patt-Shamir
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Author: Ron Ritchhart
Author: Prarthana Girish Chawda