Swain UBD - Day 1

1. SWAIN CORE:
Day One
Welcome!

2. 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.

3. Elevator Speech:
“What do you teach?”

4. Activity:
Standards Progression

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

6. “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?

7. Understanding by Design
Research-based Curriculum Design
Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe

8. 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

9. Eye-Opening Moments
Without Backward Design..
•Standards and goals are
not driving the planning
process
•Instruction is designed
around materials and
resources available
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10. 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

11. 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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12. 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

13. What will this look like?
SWAIN CORE TEMPLATE
Click here to see a
completed example from
another NC district.

14. BREAK
When you return, please sit in
grade bands:
K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-10, 11-12

23. From the Standards:
What are our Big Ideas?

24. What Big Ideas are in your standards?

25. Sorting of the Stickies

27. 27
Let’s think Units!!!

28. Using the Unpacked Standards

30. What binds us together?