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Designing Lessons with the End in Mind: Understanding the Chai Curriculum

SEED Conference Sunday, August 14, 2011 Presenter: Rebecca E. Starr, M.S.W., B.A.Ed rivkastarr@yahoo.com. Designing Lessons with the End in Mind: Understanding the Chai Curriculum. Getting to Know Each Other. Activity:

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Designing Lessons with the End in Mind: Understanding the Chai Curriculum

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  1. SEED Conference Sunday, August 14, 2011 Presenter: Rebecca E. Starr, M.S.W., B.A.Ed rivkastarr@yahoo.com Designing Lessons with the End in Mind: Understanding the Chai Curriculum

  2. Getting to Know Each Other Activity: Find a partner and make a list of 15 things you have in common….you have 2 minutes! GO!

  3. Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions Enduring Understandings: • Understanding is gained by questions that arise from reflection, discussion, and shared ideas • Backwards design enables educators to create meaningful curricula that targets specific understandings • Units should be created based on essential and topical questions that focus on targeted enduring understandings Essential Questions: • What is the backwards design process? • What are essential questions and enduing understandings? • How is backwards design helpful to me as a classroom teacher using the Chai curriculum? • How can I use backwards design process in my teaching in general?

  4. What is Backward Design? “To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where you are now so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.” – Stephen R. Covey “The world stands on three things: Torah, Avodah, and GemilutChasadim” - (Avot 1:2)

  5. A Video Example You Tube: http://youtu.be/-6NwMeCpm9w

  6. Brainstorm: • What is you understanding of backwards design? What about within the Chai curriculum? - - - • When planning your Chai lessons, where do you start? - - -

  7. What is an Enduring Understanding? What is interesting and something worth being familiar with? What is important to know about or to know how to do? Enduring Understandings: What do you want your students to remember 10 years from now? -Big ideas -Value beyond classroom -Heat of a discipline -Engaging, Lifelong

  8. Essential Questions… Essential Questions Should: • Go to the heart of a discipline • Recur naturally throughout one’s learning and in the history of a field • Raise other important questions

  9. 5 Steps in Backward Design • Indentify Learner Outcomes: What will the students know and do? • Determine Acceptable Evidence: What will you accept as evidence that the student learned? • Plan Learning Experiences: What learning experiences will enable students to achieve outcomes? • Plan Assessment and Evaluation Strategies: How will students demonstrate what they understand, know, do, and feel? • Reflection: What will you do to decide what the next step in teaching should be?

  10. Let’s Practice Avodah Lesson #2: Level 4 Curriculum Core Keva: Why We Pray? • Read the lesson. • Determine what you think the enduring undersandings are of this lesson. • Determine what the essential questions are for the lesson.

  11. Summary: Why is Backwards Design Good for us as Teachers?

  12. Ticket Out the Door How will you use the Chai curriculum differently now? How will you adjust your lesson planning?

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