Transcript Power Point: Understanding by Design

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Understanding by Design
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
What is backward design?
Understanding by Design
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
•“This book provides a conceptual
framework, design process and template,
and an accompanying set of design
standards.”
•“It offers a way to design or redesign any
curriculum to make student
understanding more likely.”
Worth being
familiar with.
Important to
know and do.
Enduring
Understanding.
Wiggins & McTighe, p. 10
Interpretation
Explanation
Application
Enduring
Understanding
has
Six Facets
Perspective
Empathy
Wiggins & McTighe, Chapter 3
SelfKnowledge
the Backward
Design
Process…
Suggests a planning sequence with
three stages:
•Identify desired results
•Determine acceptable evidence
•Plan learning experiences and
instruction
Curriculum Designing
versus Classroom Planning
(and Classroom Management).
Understanding by Design
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
Stage One: Identify desired results
•What overarching understandings are desired?
•What are the overarching essential questions?
•What will students understand as a result of this unit
or lesson?
•What essential and unit/lesson questions will focus
this unit/lesson?
Understanding by Design
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
Stage Two: Determine acceptable evidence
What evidence will show that students understand?
• Performance tasks
• Projects
• Quizzes
• Tests
• Academic prompts
• Other evidence…observations, work samples, dialogues
• Student self-assessment
Understanding by Design
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
Stage Three: Plan learning
experiences and instruction
•What knowledge and skills are needed?
•What teaching and learning experiences
will equip students to demonstrate the
targeted understandings?
Now the activities can be developed!
Learning experiences and
activities should evolve
after identifying desired
results and determining
acceptable evidence.
Grant Wiggins is fond of quoting Mae West:
“If it is worth doing, it
is worth doing
slowly.”
Backward design takes time and should be planned
for when time is available.
Grant Wiggins says plan on one well-designed
“gourmet” lesson per year when you start and seek
the support of colleagues.
New York State Academy of
Teaching and Learning
http://www.nysatl.nysed.gov