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Appendix B.04Appendix E: Thinking Tool ResourcesSix Facets of UnderstandingIn Understanding by Design, Wiggins and McTighe (1998) detail the SixFacets of Understanding as part of a curriculum design process to helpfoster and assess in-depth student understanding.Facet ofUnderstanding What Students Do Performance VerbsExplanation • Provide thorough, supportable, andjustifiable accounts of phenomena,facts and data• Provide sophisticated and apt explanationsand theories, which provideknowledgeable and justified accountsof events, actions, and ideas.Interpretation • Tell meaningful stories• Offer apt translations• Provide a revealing historical orpersonal dimension to ideas andevents• Create interpretations, narratives, andtranslations that provide meaningApplication • Use knowledge effectively in newsituations and diverse contextsPerspective • See and hear points of view throughcritical eyes and ears• See the big picture• Reveal a critical and insightful pointof viewEmpathy • Find value in what others might findodd, alien, or implausible• Perceive sensitively on the basis ofprior direct experience• Able to identify with anotherperson’s feelings and worldviewSelf-Knowledge • Have self-knowledge• Perceive the personal style,prejudices, projections, and habits ofmind that both shape and impedeone’s own understanding• Be aware of what is not understoodand why understanding is so hard• Understand how one’s patterns ofthought and action inform, as well asprejudice, understandingdemonstrate, derive,describe, design, exhibit,express, induce, instruct,justify, model, predict,prove, show, synthesize,teachcreate analogies, critique,document, evaluate,illustrate, judge, makesense of, providemetaphors, read betweenthe lines, represent, tell astory of, translateadapt, build, create, test,de-bug, decide, design,exhibit, invent, perform,produce, propose, solveanalyze, argue, compare,contrast, criticize, inferassume role of, be like, beopen to, believe, consider,imagine, relate, role-playbe aware of, realize,recognize, reflect,self-assessCompiled from Wiggins and McTighe’s Understanding by Design (1998) and The Understanding byDesign Handbook (1999), ASCD.© 2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.INTEL ®TEACH TO THE FUTURE