Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids
Teachers struggle every day to bring quality instruction to their students. Beset by lists of content standards and accompanying "high-stakes" accountability tests, many educators sense that both teaching and learning have been redirected in ways that are potentially impoverishing for those who teach and those who learn. Educators need a model that acknowledges the centrality of standards but also ensures that students truly understand content and can apply it in meaningful ways. For many...
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PrefaceAcknowledgments1. UbD and DI: An Essential Partnership2. What Really Matters in Teaching? (The Students)3. What Really Matters in Learning? (Content)4. What Really Matters in Planning for Student Success?5. Considering Evidence of Learning in Diverse Classrooms6. Responsive Teaching with UbD in Academically Diverse Classrooms7. Teaching for Understanding in Academically Diverse Classrooms8. Grading and Reporting Achievement9. Bringing it all Together: Curriculum and Instruction Through the Lens of UbD and DI10. Moving Forward to Integrate UbD and DIAppendixReferencesAbout the AuthorsIndex
