Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Understanding by Design, or UbD, is a tool utilized for educational planning focused on \"teaching for understanding\"advocated by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins in their Understanding by Design (1998), published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. The emphasis of UbD is on \"backward design\", the practice of looking at the outcomes in order to design curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction.\"Understanding by Design\" and \"UbD\" are registered trademarks of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (\"ASCD\").According to Wiggins, \"The potential of UbD for curricular improvement has struck a chord in American education. Over 250,000 educators own the book. Over 30,000 Handbooks are in use. More than 150 University education classes use the book as a text.\"As defined by Wiggins and McTighe, Understanding by Design is a \"framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that lead your students to deep understanding of the content you teach,\"UbD expands on \"six facets of understanding\", which include students being able to explain, interpret, apply, have perspective, empathize, and have self-knowledge about a given topic."@en }
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- Understanding_by_Design abstract "Understanding by Design, or UbD, is a tool utilized for educational planning focused on \"teaching for understanding\"advocated by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins in their Understanding by Design (1998), published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. The emphasis of UbD is on \"backward design\", the practice of looking at the outcomes in order to design curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction.\"Understanding by Design\" and \"UbD\" are registered trademarks of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (\"ASCD\").According to Wiggins, \"The potential of UbD for curricular improvement has struck a chord in American education. Over 250,000 educators own the book. Over 30,000 Handbooks are in use. More than 150 University education classes use the book as a text.\"As defined by Wiggins and McTighe, Understanding by Design is a \"framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that lead your students to deep understanding of the content you teach,\"UbD expands on \"six facets of understanding\", which include students being able to explain, interpret, apply, have perspective, empathize, and have self-knowledge about a given topic.".