Power Point: Understanding by Design

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Patchogue-Medford UbD Curriculum Group
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Understanding by Design Grant Wiggins and Jay
McTighe
What is backward design?
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Understanding by Design Grant Wiggins and Jay
McTighe

• This book provides a conceptual framework,
  design process and template, and an accompanying
  set of design standards.
• It offers a way to design or redesign any
  curriculum to make student understanding more
  likely.

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Worth being familiar with.
Important to know and do.
Enduring Understanding.
Wiggins McTighe, p. 10
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Interpretation
Explanation
Application
Enduring Understanding has Six Facets
Self- Knowledge
Perspective
Empathy
Wiggins McTighe, Chapter 3
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the Backward Design Process

• Suggests a planning sequence with three stages
• Identify desired results
• Determine acceptable evidence
• Plan learning experiences and instruction

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Curriculum Designing versus Classroom Planning
(and Classroom Management).
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Understanding by Design Grant Wiggins and Jay
McTighe

• Stage One Identify desired results
• What overarching understandings are desired?
• What are the overarching essential questions?
• What will students understand as a result of this
  unit
• or lesson?
• What essential and unit/lesson questions will
  focus this unit/lesson?

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Understanding by Design Grant Wiggins and Jay
McTighe

• Stage Two Determine acceptable evidence
• What evidence will show that students understand?
  
• Performance tasks
• Projects
• Quizzes
• Tests
• Academic prompts
• Other evidenceobservations, work samples,
  dialogues
• Student self-assessment

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Understanding by Design Grant Wiggins and Jay
McTighe

• Stage Three Plan learning experiences and
  instruction
• What knowledge and skills are needed?
• What teaching and learning experiences will equip
  students to demonstrate the targeted
  understandings?
• Now the activities can be developed!

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Learning experiences and activities should evolve
after identifying desired results and determining
acceptable evidence.
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Grant Wiggins is fond of quoting Mae
West Backward design takes time and should
be planned for when time is available. Grant
Wiggins says plan on one well-designed gourmet
lesson per year when you start and seek the
support of colleagues.
If it is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly.
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New York State Academy of Teaching and
Learning http//www.nysatl.nysed.gov