Additional Resources
Web Resources
Backward Design for Forward Action
http://www.ascd.org/articles/el200302_mctighe.html
Reviews the key concepts and essential questions that underlie content standards
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
http://www.nbpts.org
The National Board’s influential teaching standards, including early adolescent generalist standards
Print Resources
Wiggins, Grant, & McTighe, Jay. Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River , N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN: 013093058X
What enduring knowledge is worth understanding? How will we know that students truly understand and can apply knowledge in a meaningful way? This book explores these and other important questions and provides practical solutions for the teacher-designer.
Wiggins, Grant, & McTighe, Jay. The Understanding by Design Handbook . Alexandria , Va. : Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. 1999, ISBN: 0871203405
The handbook offers the practical side: a unit planning template, worksheets, exercises, design tools, design standards and tests, and a peer review process for learning and applying the ideas in Understanding by Design.
