Understanding by Design The ‘Big Ideas’ of UbD © 2002 Wiggins & McTighe –UbD

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

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

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

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

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

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