Teaching and assessing for understanding. Understanding by design
Jay McTighe
3 minute pause - summarize, add,pose questions
Backward Design
What is understanding?
What are the indicators?
Indicators people know but don't understand?
3 stages of backward design
1. identify desired results: think about transfer
2. determine acceptable evidence
3. plan instruction
The UbD Template: Understandin, Essential Questions, Assessments
Acquisition of Knowledge and Skill
Students will know
Students will be skilled at
Meaning
Understandings
Essential Skills: Students will keep considering
Transfer
Students will be able to independently use their Learning
Types of ?'s
Leading
Guiding
Hook
Essential
What Makes an Essential Question
Ex. What should we eat?
3 minute pause - summarize, add,pose questions
Backward Design
What is understanding?
What are the indicators?
Indicators people know but don't understand?
3 stages of backward design
1. identify desired results: think about transfer
2. determine acceptable evidence
3. plan instruction
The UbD Template: Understandin, Essential Questions, Assessments
Acquisition of Knowledge and Skill
Students will know
Students will be skilled at
Meaning
Understandings
Essential Skills: Students will keep considering
Transfer
Students will be able to independently use their Learning
Types of ?'s
Leading
Guiding
Hook
Essential
What Makes an Essential Question
Ex. What should we eat?
Rich VAn Acker: the challenge of dealing with stress, anxiety and frustration in high achieving schools
School succes depends on an effective interaction of multiple variables: instruction and teacher behavior, student, curriculum
When ability does not match expectation students escape by non compliance Mental Health Issues: Anxiety Disorders: As we have turned the heat up on teachers and students, this has increased. Fear, Frustration, Stress, Worry >increased motivation, fight, flight Careful observation to Identify triggers Understand the crisis: trigger>agitation>escalation>crisis>de-escalation |
Provide teachers with practical tools or behavior management.
Changing behavior is a process not an event.
Motivation to Re-engage in Learning
Clearly Signal Expected Behavior
Changing behavior is a process not an event.
Motivation to Re-engage in Learning
Clearly Signal Expected Behavior