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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Thinking Routines Matrix

7. 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

8. Entry points for the design process

9. 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)

10. 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

11. 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?