Understanding+by+Design


 * Overview of Understanding by Design**

The "Big Ideas"

1. Using the "Backward Design" - Identify desired results that you want students to know - Determine acceptable evidence that shows student learning - Plan learning experiences and activities to get students to the desired results

This method is a top down approach, meaning that you start off at a broad school-wide question/topic, then filter your way down to a more detailed and significant content to your course. It comes with a template (program, subject, the course and then the unit). Each level focuses on 3 ideas...the big idea, evidence, and how you got there.

Big Idea --> Essential Questions --> Identify Skills and Knowledge ---> Performance Tasks and Other Evidence --> Learning Plan