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UbD : Understanding by Design

UbD : Understanding by Design. By: Mercedes Slack and Lisa Smoot. What is Understanding by design?. UbD is a format for teachers to plan lessons that keep students engaged, clarify learning goals, and create informative assessments of student understanding.

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UbD : Understanding by Design

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  1. UbD: Understanding by Design By: Mercedes Slack and Lisa Smoot

  2. What is Understanding by design? • UbD is a format for teachers to plan lessons that keep students engaged, clarify learning goals, and create informative assessments of student understanding. • When using UbD teachers use a three-stage backwards planning format that can help them improve their lessons and assessments.

  3. Example of three stage planning process http://blogs.riverdale.edu/techintegration/files/2011/11/ubd21.png

  4. Ubd in an art curriculum • Stage 1- Desired Results • Enduring understandings: An artist’s identity can influence the narrative or story expressed in artwork. • Essential Questions: What is identity? What makes you, you? • Stage 2- Assessment Evidence • On going formative assessments between the student and the teacher. • Three types: Assessment tasks, evidence, and criteria • Example: Final projects or answers to questions ask by the teacher • Stage 3-Learning Plan • Includes all the materials, resources, motivation, and differentiation. • Example: Current or historical artists, paints, and choices for students

  5. Relation to Standards • When planning a UbD lesson a standard is first “unpacked” meaning finding the big ideas and core tasks that make up the standard. http://insights.engr.wisc.edu/article-ubd.shtml

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