Stage 1 of the UbD Template

1. Using Understanding by Design to
Implement Common Core Standards

2. 
What makes curriculum effective?
How does UbD reflect effective
curriculum for all students?
How do we know when a student really
understands?
What contributes to a powerful learning
experience?
THE EQS FOR THIS PRESENATATION

6. DESIRED RESULTS
• What is worthy
and requires
understanding?

7. CONSIDERATIONS
• Common Core
Standards
• State and District
Frameworks
• Scope and
Sequence
• Teacher Expertise
• Teacher/Student
Interest

8. CRITERIA
Enduring Ideas
Opportunities For Authentic,
Discipline-Based Work
Uncoverage
Engaging

9. Worth being familiar with
Important to know
and do
UNDERSTANDING
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
“Enduring”
Understanding
•Represent a big
idea having
enduring value
beyond the
classroom.
•Reside at the heart
of the discipline.
•Require
uncoverage.
•Offer potential for
engaging students.

10. Definition of
distributive property
How to group
& regroup
Equivalence,
and being able to
simplify, to solve real
problems,
using the idea
ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES
MATHEMATICS
big idea &
core task
foundational
skill
nice to know

11. Author of “The
Emperor’s New Clothes”
How to ask
questions of
a text
Authors rarely
say what
they mean
and
Analyzing a tricky text
on one’s own
ESTABLISING PRIORITIES
LITERACY
big idea &
core task
important
skill
Nice to know

12. Tips For Using Essential Questions
O Organize programs, courses, units of study, and
lessons around the questions. Make the content the
answers to the questions.
O Use a reasonable number of questions per unit
(between two and five). Make less be more.
O Edit the questions to make them as engaging and
provocative as possible for the particular age group.
O Sequence the questions so they lead naturally from one
to another.
what do we fear?