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Understanding by Design The ‘Big Ideas’ of UbD © 2002 Wiggins & McTighe –UbD
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LPT OE R EU K EQ CS Stage 1Stage 2Stage 3 Enduring Understandings Essential Questions Content Standards Knowledge & Skill Performance Task(s) Rubric(s) Other Evidence Learning Plan Stages of Planning
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Stage 1 – 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 should students know? – What content standards are addressed explicitly by the unit? U K Q CS
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Understandings: examples... – Great artists often break with conventions to better express what they see and feel. – Price is a function of supply and demand. – Friendships can be deepened or undone by hard times – History is the story told by the “winners” – F = ma (weight is not mass) – Math models simplify physical relations – and even sometimes distort relations – to deepen our understanding of them – The storyteller rarely tells the meaning of the story U
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Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence – 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? T OE R
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Assessment of Understanding via the 6 facets i.e. You really understand when you can: – explain, connect, systematize, predict it – show its meaning, importance – apply or adapt it to novel situations – see it as one plausible perspective among others, question its assumptions – see it as its author/speaker saw it – avoid and point out common misconceptions, biases, or simplistic views
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Curricular Priorities and Assessment Methods Worth being familiar with Important to know and do “Enduring” understanding Assessment Types Traditional quizzes and tests Paper-pencil Selected-response Constructed-response Performance tasks and projects Open-ended Complex Authentic
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