Understanding by Design:

1. Understanding by Design: Module 5 – Getting Started with Lesson Design

2. Understanding by Design: Getting Started • Purpose: • Consider starting points for lesson design. • Decide how to begin designing a lesson. • Decide where to begin designing a lesson.

3. Understanding by Design: Training Module #5 • This training module is based on the works of Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins’ Understanding by Design. • This module was built by AISD to support Understanding by Design concepts in the classroom. • AISD Curriculum documents such as Yearly Itineraries and Curriculum Road Maps are written in the UbD Framework Design. • At the end of the training, you will need to complete an Online Assessment to get credit for completing the module.

4. Unit Design

5. Unit DESIGN Click and drag to boxes to the correct column A single process Performance deficiencies revealed by assessments (making inferences, solving multi-step math problems) Vocabulary, Subtraction with borrowing Questions with right or wrong answers. Drill and practice exercises “Big” State/District Standard (creative writing, regrouping, factoring) “Narrow” standard, benchmark indicator, discrete skill (“sonnetts” or “associative property”) Favorite learning activity Topics with essential questions (“How does culture shape art?” Universal theme, theory Important, enduring ideas Process that uses different and important skills Inquiry into complex and topical issues Definitions

6. Unit DESIGN Click and drag to boxes to the correct column

7. Unit DESIGN • Getting Ready to Design a Unit . Design Decisions What are your content goals? Ideas and Content Knowledge Skill Development Identify the transfer goals, essential questions and understandings. Begin with developing essential questions and understandings, and then focus on transfer goals.

8. Unit DESIGN • Getting Ready to Design a Unit. • Design Decisions: • What is the scope of your unit? • Start with a unit that involves: • Inquiries • Challenges • Issues • Themes • Problems requiring students to make sense of something • Concepts that permit in-depth probing and investigation • “The best units do not focus on a fact or a skill; they focus on how to use related facts or skills to achieve understanding.” (Grant & Wiggins pg. 35)

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14. Unit Design – AISD Model What transfer goals are embedded in the standard? What should students be able to do on their own to show they meet the standard? . Start designing a unit on Stage I – Desired Results. A thought provoking question. What big ideas can be explored by asking questions? This is a blank Austin ISD CRM. An “AHA”! When the unit is done, what new insight will the student have gained? Content Standards. What big ideas and transfer goals are implied in the state/district standard? Start designing a unit on Stage 2 – Evidence Test for assessment. What do students need to know about this in order to do well on the assessment? Start designing a unit on Stage 3 – Learning Plan. What learning experience will help uncover the big ideas from Stage 1? Key resources/text. Why do you use that resource? Why does the student have to read that text?

15. LESSON DESIGN

16. LESSON DESIGN • This is the lesson design template for the Austin Independent School District. • Your lesson planning should happen in Stage 3 of the UbD model. • Your lesson design should support your… • Stage 1 Desired Results • Stage 2 Assessments STAGE 1 STAGE 2 Move the mouse over the image to see a larger version.

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18. How do I get to the Curriculum?

19. Log in to the AISD Cloud.

20. Open Schoolnet

21. Click on the “Classrooms” tab Click on the “Instructional Materials” link

22. Select a Subject Don’t forget to click the “Search” button. Nothing will happen until you do this. Select a Grade Click the drop down menu and choose Curriculum

23. Click on the link

24. Click on the “Scope and Sequence” tab

25. Click on the CRM you wish to view

26. Here’s your CRM for a particular Unit Don’t forget to use the scroll bars to view the rest of the document

27. Unit Design • References: Wiggins, Grant, and Jay McTighe. The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units. 2nd. Alexandria: ASCD, 2011. Print.