SWAIN CORE:Day One

Welcome!

Goals for Today

•Understand the UbD process and what all grades teach.

•Think about the Big Ideas/Transfer Goals.

•Be aware of the 6 shifts with ELA/Literacy.

•Align Standards with Big Ideas and Units and Pacing.

•Document your group’s work on the provided templates.

Elevator Speech:“What do you teach?”

Activity:Standards Progression

“In an ideal world,I wish students came to me knowing…”

“To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear

understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re

going so that you better understand where you are now so that the steps

you take are always in the right direction.”

-- Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

How does this relate to curriculum design?

Understanding by DesignResearch-based Curriculum Design

Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe

What is backward design?

• Creating curriculum standards based on deep understanding, engagement, uncovering answers, and inquiry rather than developing lessons and units around…

• Resources (Textbook Crutch)• Activities• Covering the Material

Grant Wiggins

Eye-Opening MomentsWithout Backward Design..

• Standards and goals are not driving the planning process

• Instruction is designed around materials and resources available

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Three Stages of Backward Design

Stage 1: Desired Results

• Established Goals• Enduring

Understandings• Essential Questions• Knowledge and

Skills

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

• Performance Tasks and Rubrics

• Other Evidence• Self-Assessment

Stage 3: Learning Plan

• Teaching and Learning Activities

Today’s Focus:Stage One

What UbD ISN’T❏ prescriptive recipe❏ recalling facts and figures❏ planning done from beginning

to end of lesson❏ drill and kill exercises

What UbD IS ★ 3-stage design process★ ability to make meaning of ‘big

ideas’ and transfer their learning

★ planning is done ‘backward’ from the desired results

★ continuous improvement approach

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Three Stages of Backward Design

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence that Students have Achieved Desired Results

Stage 3: Plan Learning

What will this look like?SWAIN CORE TEMPLATE

Click here to see a completed example from

another NC district.

BREAK

When you return, please sit in grade bands:

K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-10, 11-12

From the Standards:What are our Big Ideas?

What Big Ideas are in your standards?

Sorting of the Stickies

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Let’s think Units!!!

Using the Unpacked Standards

What binds us together?