"[The authors] offer a practical guide to teaching seven essential thinking skills that will equip students for success in school and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
"Upgrade Your Teaching merges discoveries from neuroscience with the Understanding by Design framework to help teachers improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment"-- Provided by publisher.
Provides resources to educators in developing curriculum and assessments and includes templates for designing a unit or course, criteria for reviewing curricular designs, workshop activities, and graphic organizers.
A companion book to the "Understanding by Design" text, which provides a six-step guide to the theory of understanding, featuring a unit planning template, worksheets, exercises, design tools, design standards and tests, an a peer review process.