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Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook

Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook

Paperback (30 Mar 2004)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Implementing the popular Understanding by Design® (UbD™) framework is much easier when you use this in-depth resource for workshops, curriculum teams, and teacher training. This collection of templates, design tools, examples, and exercises helps you give all staff members a firm grasp of key UbD principles, including:

  • How to use backward design to align curriculum with assessment and instruction.
  • Why to focus curriculum on the ""big ideas"" in your content standards.
  • Which learning activities are more apt to enable students to achieve desired results.


  • Give staff members at all levels clear action steps they need in every stage of the UbD process, including:
    • Drafting curriculum units based on essential questions.
    • Creating performance tasks and rubrics for assessing student understanding in any subject.
    • Organizing, sequencing, and guiding classroom learning experiences.


    Included are steps for conducting a peer review of unit designs plus process steps to guide your implementation of UbD systemwide.

    Book information

    ISBN: 9780871208552
    Publisher: ASCD
    Imprint: ASCD
    Pub date:
    Language: English
    Number of pages: 295
    Weight: 703g
    Height: 274mm
    Width: 211mm
    Spine width: 15mm