Enduring+Understandings


 * Enduring Understandings **

“The term //enduring// refers to the big ideas, or the important understandings, that we want students to "get inside of" and retain after they've forgotten many of the details. Put differently, the enduring understandings provide a larger purpose for learning the targeted content: They implicitly answer the question, Why is this topic worth studying?”
 * Definition **

--- Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, //The Understanding by Design Handbook, 1998// McTighe and Wiggins, //Understanding by Design//, Prentice Hall; Expanded 2nd edition (July 24, 2005) McTighe and Tomlinson, //Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design: Connecting Content an Kids//, ASCD; 1st edition (May 2006) Chapter 4. Module 4: Identifying Enduring Understandings [] Understanding by Design Template
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[|http://www.maine207.k12.il.us/staffdev/wiggins.pdf] Understanding by Design Exchange Web site

[] First two chapters of "Understanding by Design"

[] PowerPoint Presentation on Basic Concepts of Wiggins and McTighe

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