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Understanding by Design
Prof. Miguel A. Arce RamosELED 208Methodology of Elementary English Education
What is UbD?• UbD is a way of thinking purposefully about curricular
planning and school reform.
• It offers a 3-stage design process, a set of helpful design tools, and design standards -- not a rigid program or prescriptive recipe.
• The primary goal of UbD is student understanding: the ability to make meaning of “big ideas” and transfer their learning.
What is backward Design• Planning is best done ”backward” from the desired
results and the transfer tasks that embody the goals.
• The 3 Stages (Desired Results, Evidence, Learning Plan) must align for the unit to be most effective.
• “Transfer” refers to the ultimate desired accomplishment: what, in the end, should students be able to do with all this ‘content’, on their own, if this and other related units are successful?
UbD
Stage 1: Identify desired results
Stage 2: Determine acceptable evidence
Stage 3: Plan learning experiences & instruction
What is backward design?• We’re used to jumping to lesson and activity ideas -
before clarifying our performance goals for students
• By thinking through the assessments upfront, we ensure greater alignment of our goals and means, and that teaching is focused on desired results.
There are three big ideas per stage:
Three Big
Ideas
2. What’s
the evidenc
e?
1. What are the
big ideas? 3. How
will you get
there?
What is behind each stage?• Stage 1:
Understandings
Questions
Content Standards
Knowledge and skill
What is behind each stage?•Stage 2:
RubricsOther EvidenceTask
What is behind each stage?•Stage 3: •Learning Plan
Order• There are many ‘doorways’ into successful
design – you can start with...• Content standards• Performance goals• A key resource or activity• A required assessment• A big idea, often misunderstood• An important skill or process• An existing unit or lesson to edit
Stage 1: Identify desired results
Identify desired results• What do I want my students to understand?
• What should students know, understand and be able to do?
• What are our overall objectives of the unit?
• What will the student recall and remember about the unit?
Identify desired results•Key: Focus on Big ideas• Enduring Understandings: What specific insights about big ideas
do we want students to leave with?
• What essential questions will frame the teaching and learning, pointing toward key issues and ideas, and suggest meaningful and provocative inquiry into content?
• What content standards are addressed explicitly by the unit?
Identify desired results• Organize content around key concepts
• Show how the big ideas offer a purpose and rationale for the student
• You will need to “unpack” Content standards in many cases to make the implied big ideas clear
Essential Questions• are arguable - and important to argue about?
• are at the heart of the subject?
• recur - and should recur - in professional work, adult life, as well as in classroom inquiry?
• raise more questions – provoking and sustaining engaged inquiry?
• often raise important conceptual or philosophical issues?
• can provide organizing purpose for meaningful & connected learning?
Stage 2: Determine acceptable evidence
Determine acceptable evidence• How will we know if students have achieved the desired results?
• What are key complex performance tasks indicative of understanding?
• What other evidence will be collected to build the case for understanding, knowledge, and skill?
• What rubrics will be used to assess complex performance?
Determine acceptable evidence• It can only be inferred if we see evidence that the student knows
why (it works) so what? (why it matters), how (to apply it) – not just knowing that specific inference.
• The assessments should be:• Be grounded in real-world applications, supplemented as needed by more
traditional school evidence
• Provide useful feedback to the learner, be transparent, and minimize secrecy
• Be valid, reliable - aligned with the desired results of Stage 1 (and fair)
How can we determine if a student knows?• The student must pass through the following 6 facets:
Explain Interpret Apply
Shift Perspective
see it as its author/speak
er saw itSelf-asses
Stage 3: Plan learning experiences & instruction
Plan learning experiences & instruction• Finally, after you have decided what results you want
and how you will know you’ve achieved them, then you start planning how you’re going to teach.
• You can now move to designing your instructional strategies and students’ learning activities.
• What are the best exercises, problems or questions for developing your students’ ability to meet your learning goals?
Plan learning experiences & instruction• How can they practice using new knowledge to gain the skills
you want them to learn?
• How can they apply their learning?
• Devise active and collaborative exercises that encourage students to grapple with new concepts in order to “own” them.
• You want to foster increasing understanding, not rote memorization.