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Schooling by Design: Mission, Action, and Achievement (Professional Development)

By Jay Mctighe, Grant P. Wiggins

ISBN: 9781416605805
UPC: 884874633492

Published: 2007

Number of Pages: 287

Edition: 1st

Binding: Paperback


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Product Type: Book

Publisher: ASCD

Description: Why, despite years of trying, have efforts to achieve lasting, effective school reform fallen short? What curricular and policy elements must be in place to move forward? How should the roles of teachers and education leaders be defined to best support the point of school? Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and other questions in Schooling by Design: Mission, Action, and Achievement. Building on the premise of Understanding by Design, their acclaimed framework for curriculum, instruction, and assessment, the authors present a compelling argument for using the same approach to reach a grand goal: the reform of schooling as a whole. In their view, reform rests on six pillars: (1) a relentless focus on the long-term mission of school: enabling learners to demonstrate understanding and mature habits of mind; (2) a curriculum and assessment framework that honors the mission and ensures that content "coverage" is no longer the accepted approach to instruction; (3) a set of principles of learning that support all decisions about pedagogy and planning; (4) Structures, policies, job descriptions, practices, and use of resources consistent with mission and learning principles; (5) an overall strategy that includes ongoing feedback and adjustment; and (6) a set of tactics linked to strategy, including a planning process that uses "backward design" to accomplish the key work of reform. Practical, insightful and provocative, Schooling by Design elaborates on each of these elements and presents educators with both the rationale and the methodology for closing the gap between what we say we want from school and what school actually delivers--for turning vision into reality.


Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  2007004394
   - LC control Number: 2007004394

International Standard Book Number: 1416605800 (pbk. : alk. paper)9781416605805 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Geographic Area Code: n-us---

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: LA217.2
   - Item number: .W53 2007

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 370.1

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Wiggins, Grant P.,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1950-

Title Statement
   - Title: Schooling by design :
   - Remainder of title: mission, action, and achievement /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Alexandria, VA :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2007.

Physical Description
   - Extent: v, 287 p. :
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Dimensions: 28 cm.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: A vision of schooling -- What is the mission of schooling? -- What should curriculum accomplish? -- How should curriculum be re-formed? -- How should teaching be appropriately depersonalized? -- What is the teacher's job when teaching? -- What is the teacher's job when not teaching? -- What is the job of an academic leader? -- A plan for schooling by design -- How should backward design apply to school reform? -- What are the desired results of school reform? -- What evidence should we collect? -- What actions should we plan? -- What habits must we confront?.A vision of schooling -- What is the mission of schooling? -- What should curriculum accomplish? -- How should curriculum be re-formed? -- How should teaching be appropriately depersonalized? -- What is the teacher's job when teaching? -- What is the teacher's job when not teaching? -- What is the job of an academic leader? -- A plan for schooling by design -- How should backward design apply to school reform? -- What are the desired results of school reform? -- What evidence should we collect? -- What actions should we plan? -- What habits must we confront?.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Curriculum planning
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Education
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Educational change
   - General subdivision: Aims and objectives
   - General subdivision: Aims and objectives.
   - Geographic subdivision: United States
   - Geographic subdivision: United States.

Added Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: McTighe, Jay.


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