1. The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in helping a person think and do for himself/herself. Carter G. Woodson

2. What is the primary goal in my course? Cover the basic material Impart new discipline knowledge Facilitate student learning Ensure student success Other

3. Traditional course design… Content coverage Activity centered Not always clear connection to desired learning outcomes or larger understanding

4. Traditional course design Choose text Identify chapters to be covered Develop lectures or labs Create exams

6. Understanding by Design Wiggins and McTighe Represents BIG ideas with value beyond the classroom Requires “uncoverage” “Backward Design” - key Engages students

7. Understanding by Design – Why Bother? Focus on what you want students to achieve Move away from “coverage” Improve student and faculty engagement Connect course outcomes, assessments, and activities Facilitates mapping of course outcomes and student assessment to program, department, and institution – level goals

8. Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins Two Big Ideas of Understanding by Design Jay McTighe

9. Plan Learning Experiences Determine Acceptable Evidence Identify Desired Results Backward Design

10. Stage 1: Identify the Desired Results Outcomes Program, course, unit

11. Learning Outcomes What will my students know? What will my students be able to do? What will my students be to understand/appreciate?

12. Identifying Key Ideas Big-picture knowledge, allows One to find and retrieve information Prerequisites for success Students will know long after the class ends

13. Something to think about…. Course Outcomes Concepts and issues - What must the student understand to demonstrate the intended outcome? Process skills -What skills must the student master to demonstrated the intended outcomes?

14. Key Ideas…. Choose a course. Identify what is… worth being familiar with important to know and do enduring understandings

15. Stage 1: Identify the desired results (based on Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe) Learning Outcomes What relevant goals (eg. course outcomes) will this design address? Understandings: Students will understand that …. What are the big ideas? What specific understandings about them are desired? What misunderstandings are predictable? Q Essential Questions: What provocative question will foster inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning Students will know… What key knowledge and skills will the student acquire as a result of the this unit? What should they eventually be able to do as a result of such knowledge and skills? A Students will be able to…

16. Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

17. How will you know if students have achieved the desired results and met the expectations? What will you accept as evidence of student understanding and proficiency? What is evidence of in-depth understanding as opposed to superficial or naïve understanding? What kinds of assessment evidence will anchor units and guide instruction?

18. To what extent do the assessments provide fair, valid, reliable, and sufficient measured of the desired results?

19. Fair allow for students of both genders and all backgrounds to do equally well. Valid an indication of how well an assessment actually measures what it is supposed to measure Reliable an indication of the consistency of scores across evaluators or over time

20. Plan a range of assessment formative summative balance use observations quizzes and tests performance tasks projects must support students in developing understanding give students opportunities to demonstrate that understanding criterion-based student self-assessment essay or paper webpage portfolio authentic learning tasks

22. Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence Performance Tasks: Through what authentic performance tasks will students demonstrate the desired understandings? By what criteria will performance of understanding be judged Other Evidence: Through what other evidence (eg. quizzes, tests, observations, reading response) will students demonstrate achievement of the desired results? How will students reflect upon and self-assess their learning?

23. Criteria

24. RubricsRubrics 1 Rubric 2

25. Co-Constructing Criteria What makes a “good” oral presentation? List one attribute per sticky note. When complete put sticky notes on designated chart paper.

26. With your partners, group attributes together. Title each category. Share your categories and their content with the large group.

27. Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences

28. “ Beyond learning about a subject, students will need lessons that enable them to experience directly the inquiries, arguments, applications, and points of view underneath the facts and opinions they learn if they are to understand them.” (Source: Understanding Design by Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe, p. 99)

29. The learning experience requires students to: “Theorize, interpret, use, or see in perspective what they are asked to learn…(or) they will not likely understand it or grasp that their job is more than recall.” Source: Understanding Design by Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe, p. 99

30. ACTIVE LEARNING Video

31. Rich Learning Experiences Role-play Problem-based activities Case studies Simulations Dramatizations Project based Practicums Service learning Situational observations

32. Authentic Learning Authenthtic Learning Assessment

33. Plan Learning Experiences Determine Acceptable Evidence Identify Desired Results Backward Design

34. What are the advantages of Understanding By Design approach to program, course, and unit development? What are the challenges of implementing an Understanding By Design approach? Additional thoughts, comments….

35. Alignment

36. “ Education is not filling a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” -William Butler Yeats