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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818305203321

Autore

Wiggins Grant P. <1950->

Titolo

Schooling by design : mission, action, and achievement / / Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Alexandria, Va. : , : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, , 2007

ISBN

9781416617372

1-4166-1737-X

9781416605805

1-4166-0653-X

9786611239046

1-281-23904-6

1-4166-0655-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 287 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

370.1

Soggetti

Education - United States - Aims and objectives

Educational change - United States

Curriculum planning - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- PART I: A VISION OF SCHOOLING -- 1. What is the mission of schooling? -- 2. What should curriculum accomplish? -- 3. How should curriculum be re-formed? -- 4. How should teaching be appropriately depersonalized? -- 5. What is the teacher's job when teaching? -- 6. What is the teacher's job when not teaching? -- 7. What is the job of an academic leader? -- PART II: A PLAN FOR SCHOOLING BY DESIGN -- 8. How should backward design apply to school reform? -- 9. What are the desired results of school reform? -- 10. What evidence should we collect? -- 11. What actions should we plan? -- 12. What habits must we confront?

Sommario/riassunto

Describes how to start with the school's mission and goals and develop a powerful school improvement plan focused on desired results. Explains how to use Understanding by Design 's backward-design process to determine the evidence for the plan's success and to plan



improvement steps in instruction and leadership roles. Provides action ideas for starting the school improvement process and keeping it going.