Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids

by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416602844
• ISBN13: 9781416602842
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: ASCD
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The essential book on differentiation

This book provides a quick yet thorough introduction to developing a differentiated program for all teaching. I consider it an essential reference book for teachers who are developing lesson plans that consider all types of learners. A teaching book that every teacher should have!

A Must Read

As a professional educator who is interested in curriculum development and student success, I couldn't put this book down! Tomlinson an McTighe are both experts on their perspective topics of differentiation and assessment, so the pairing of these two made for informative reading. We want to reach every student to the point that they understand the essential learnings, and these two make numerous practical suggestions so that practitioners in the field can better design and implement plans for reaching students' needs, which would naturally lead to academic improvement.

Excellent

Excellent book for the differentiated class I am taking. Very fully explained and detailed.

Combining Differentiated Instruction with Backwards Design

If you like Tomlinson and McTighe's previous works individually, then this is the book for you! This short, easy-to-read piece explains how differentiating instruction and planning with UBD work so well together. It's a perfect marriage!

Must read for all teachers

As a first year teacher I have found this book extremly helpful. I highly recommend it.