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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiggins, Grant P., 1950- author.

McTighe, Jay, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Aims and objectives--United States.

Educational change--United States.

Curriculum planning--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 287 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2007.

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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?

Notes:

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

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781416605805

9786611239046

9781416617372

141661737X

9781416606536

141660653X

9781281239044

1281239046

9781416606550

1416606556

OCLC:

298260504