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

The authors of Understanding by Design share a compelling strategy for creating schools that truly fulfill the central mission of education: to help students become "thoughtful, productive, and accomplished at worthy tasks."

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Wiggins, Grant P., 1950-
Other Authors: McTighe, Jay
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2007.
Series:Gale virtual reference library.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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?.