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Understanding by Design Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

Understanding by Design Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. What is backward design?. Worth being familiar with. Important to know and do. Enduring Understanding. Wiggins & McTighe, p. 10. Interpretation. Explanation. Application. Enduring Understanding has Six Facets. Self-

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Understanding by Design Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

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  1. Understanding by DesignGrant Wiggins and Jay McTighe What is backward design?

  2. Worth being familiar with. Important to know and do. Enduring Understanding. Wiggins & McTighe, p. 10

  3. Interpretation Explanation Application Enduring Understanding has Six Facets Self- Knowledge Perspective Empathy Wiggins & McTighe, Chapter 3

  4. the Backward Design Process… • Suggests a planning sequence with three stages: • Identify desired results • Determine acceptable evidence • Plan learning experiences and instruction

  5. Understanding by DesignGrant 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?

  6. Understanding by DesignGrant 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

  7. Understanding by DesignGrant 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!

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