books by Grant Wiggins

books by Grant Wiggins

books:

Grant Wiggins

Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook

Jay McTighe, Grant Wiggins

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2004

Backward design fan
This book complements in practical form the ideas presented in Understanding by Design (UbD). I am using this book as a guide for the design of courses online in higher education. Both have been a wonderful aid to rationalize the amount of resources that I must include ...

Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Assessment: Solving the Assessment Conundrum
David Lazear

Zephyr Press, 1999

More than 1,000 specific ideas are provided to help teachers accurately assess students' academic progress in math, language arts, history, science, social studies, and practical and fine arts. ?Student Watch? assessment instruments are provided so that teachers may observe and score students involved in various activities and learning tasks. ...

Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing

Grant P. Wiggins

Jossey-Bass, 1999

Tremendously Thought-Provoking...
(also a teacher...) This book is a provocative critique of the way that testing and assessment are currently handled in schools. Wiggins excels at teasing out the inherent, often invisible, contradictions between our stated goals as educators and what it is that ...

Schooling by Design: Mission, Action, and Achievement
Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe

ASCD, 2007

Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition

Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe

Prentice Hall, 2005

Fresh approach to curriculum design
I've used this book for three years in my graduate Curriculum Design courses for teachers. My students are practicing teachers who have seen dozens of lesson planning approaches and don't need some new theory just for the fun of it. But Wiggins and McTighe present a ...

Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance (Jossey Bass Education ...

Grant Wiggins

Jossey-Bass, 1998

Educative Assessment gets ASSESSED
Grant Wiggins has written an excellent book that delves into, not only the ways in which we can change current assessment practices, but he also explores ways in which we can change policies that drive assessment practices. Wiggins explores various assessment ...

Tar Heel Junior Historian: The State History Journal for Inquiring Students, Fall 1994; Sports, Recreation, ...
Jim Sumner, Emily Grant, ...

North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1994

36 pp. plus wraps. Short historical articles about sports and other recreational and leisure activities in North Carolina: Sumner, "Sports and Society in North Carolina"; Grant, "Colonial Games"; Wiggins, "Sports and Recreation in the Slave Community"; Ireland, "North Carolina's Recreation on Wheels from 1900 to 1960"; Lumpkin, "Estelle Lawson ...

Favorite Stories of Christmas Past
Clement C Moore, Nora A Smith, ...

Tantor Media, 2008

Tantor Media presents ten of the most popular Christmas stories, including "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and "The Gift of the Magi," read by award-winning narrators Renee Raudman and Alan Sklar.

Feeding the Crow

Robin Britton, Jill Wiggins, ...

Plain View Press, 1998

Review by Irene Watson, author of "The Sitting Swing."
A compilation of voices that brings out each writer's spirit to touch the readers soul.

Set of Two Books - Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook and Understanding by Design ...
Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins

ASCD, 2005

Set of two softcover, both 8 12" x 11" and Workbook has 295 pages, copyright 2004. Expanded 2nd Edition "Understanding by Design has 370 pages, copyright 2005.

Diversity of the true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) on Arnold Air Force Base, Tullahoma, Tennessee.: An ...
P.L. Lambdin, J.F. Grant, ...

Tennessee Academy of Science, 2003

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