Understanding by Design

1. Understanding by Design Adapted from Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe

2. Understanding by Design 1 2 3

3. We Need Students Who Can Think

4. Learning Goals • Acquisition of knowledge and skill • Ability to Make Meaning • Transfer of knowledge to new situations

5. Acquire Learn for Understanding Transfer Make Meaning

6. The Big Ideas of UbD • A Focus on Design • “Backward” from understanding-based goals • A Focus on Understanding • Big Ideas grasped and transfer of learning as the goal of education

7. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School---Bransford • Application of Knowledge---transfer • Think in terms of the Big Ideas • Depth • Timely specific feedback • Performance-based assessment- “Real World” • Self-assessment • Open-ended questions • Understandings/Generalizations • Inquiry- Active Learning Understanding

8. Understanding “The capacity to apply facts, concepts, and skills in new situations in appropriate ways. -----Dr. Howard Gardner Handouts Pg. 26

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13. You’ve got to go below the surface...

14. To "uncover" the really Big Ideas

15. “Breadth over Depth”----------------Was the Old Approach

16. THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL QUOTES FROM Science Tests of Students 11 Years Old: Think About This!

17. "Germinate: To become a naturalized German.” Think About This!

18. "When you breathe, you inspire. When you do not breathe, you expire.” Think About This!

19. "Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas.” Think About This!

20. "To prevent contraception: wear a condominium.” Think About This!

21. If you know where you are going, you are more likely to get there.

22. Work Smarter not HarderPlan for Success

23. Design process is non-linear It doesn’t matter where you begin or how you proceed - as long as the design ends up with all elements aligned! Unit Template STAGE 1: G U Q STAGE 2: T OE STAGE 3: L

24. Link assessments to curricular priorities worth being familiar with important to ‘big ideas’ worth understanding know & do • Traditional quizzes • and tests • Paper/pencil • Selected-response • Constructed response • Performance tasks and • projects • Open ended • Complex • authentic

25. Stage 1 Identify Desired Results • Enduring Understanding • Framed as a generalization • The Big Picture/Big Idea • Something beyond the specific content • The heart of the discipline

26. Enduring Understanding • The “Aha” • The Moral of the Story • Insight into the Standards (Unpacking) • The “forevers”

27. Avoid • Simple Facts • Definitions • The Obvious • Trite Statements • The “Duh” Factor

28. Examples of Enduring Understandings • Laws and rules prevent chaos. • Fairy tales often illustrate profound philosophical truths • The words of poetry stir up feelings and ideas in the reader or listener. • In music the silence is as important as the notes. • Mathematics is a language consisting of symbols and rules. • Living things grow and change, sometimes in predictable patterns

29. Skills Compared to Understandings From the Understanding by Design Handbook p. 89

30. Pay Attention! http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=40c570a322f1b0b65909