UBD – Understanding By Design Stage 3: Planning learning experiences & instruction Designing experiences: Resources & reminders 4/22/15

Having a template is like having a key to open doors to design and deliver a lesson, effectively and with ease. WHY?

Resources & reminders - all full-length versions on Haiku Types of teaching Techniques to check for understanding Thinking routines matrix Powerful learning opportunities Entry points for the design process

Types of teaching What the teacher uses What the students do Didactic or direct instruction Receive, take in, respond Ex: modeling, lecture Ex: question, practice Facilitative or constructivist methods Construct, examine, and extend meaning Ex: cooperative learning Ex: collaborate, support others, teach Coaching Refine skills, deepen understanding Ex: guided practice, feedback Ex: practice, revise, reflect Types of teaching

Techniques to check for understanding Index card summaries / questions Hand signals One-minute essay Question box or board Analogy prompt Visual representation (mind map / concept map) Oral questioning Follow-up probes Misconception check Techniques to check for understanding

Thinking Routines Matrix

Creating Powerful Learning Opportunities Novel Application: Applying, organizing, interpreting, evaluating, or synthesizing prior knowledge to solve novel problems or form new judgments. Meaningful Inquiry: Develop new understandings and insights that go beyond the obvious and extend one’s current understanding. Effective Communication: Expressing, representing, justifying, supporting, and communicating ones ideas, understandings, methods, and processes effectively using disciplinary tools, symbols & language. Purposeful Reach: Producing discourse, products, and performances that have value beyond the classroom. Efforts have utilitarian, aesthetic, or personal meaning & connect learning to the larger world. Creating Powerful Learning Opportunities

Entry points for the design process

Activity – Tools of the craft Pair-share one multidisciplinary resource or tech tool/app/program that you use that is an effective learning tool. (5 min) Group share out & create common resource page (15 min)

Resources available on Haiku Goal 1 thoughtfully designed unit - aligned w/ your EU’s / EQ’s - aligned w/ your assessment(s) - unit described using template (other?) - rough draft April 22 *April 29 – final rough draft DUE May 20 – final product DUE Resources available on Haiku

May 20? Next meeting come with idea of HOW you would like to share info Will send final completed template of unit plan to me What would be most useful for you?