An introduction to basic UBD principles and getting yoru head around understandings and transfer goals before considering the big ideas for the cornerstone tasks
To understand the concept of theory, it is essential to understand the nature of theory in general.
Historically, the Received View holds that a theory is a formalized, deductively connected bundle of laws that are applicable in specifiable ways to their observable manifestations. In the Received View, a small number of concepts are selected as bases for the theory; axioms are introduced that specify the fundamental relationships among those concepts; and definitions are provided, specifying the remaining concepts of the theory in terms of the basic ones.
Philosophy aims to build on the students' own wonder and curiosity about ideas
that are important to them. The subject matter of Philosophy is the common,
central and contestable concepts that underpin both our experience of human life
and all academic disciplines.
Philosophy is a vehicle for holding purposeful
discussions to help students understand and be able to apply the nine Values for
Australian Schooling. Examples of such concepts relate directly to the nine
Values:
• Care and compassion
• Doing your best
• Fair go
• Freedom
• Honesty and trustworthiness
• Integrity
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Understanding, tolerance and inclusion
To understand the concept of theory, it is essential to understand the nature of theory in general.
Historically, the Received View holds that a theory is a formalized, deductively connected bundle of laws that are applicable in specifiable ways to their observable manifestations. In the Received View, a small number of concepts are selected as bases for the theory; axioms are introduced that specify the fundamental relationships among those concepts; and definitions are provided, specifying the remaining concepts of the theory in terms of the basic ones.
Philosophy aims to build on the students' own wonder and curiosity about ideas
that are important to them. The subject matter of Philosophy is the common,
central and contestable concepts that underpin both our experience of human life
and all academic disciplines.
Philosophy is a vehicle for holding purposeful
discussions to help students understand and be able to apply the nine Values for
Australian Schooling. Examples of such concepts relate directly to the nine
Values:
• Care and compassion
• Doing your best
• Fair go
• Freedom
• Honesty and trustworthiness
• Integrity
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Understanding, tolerance and inclusion
The content in the slide mainly focuses on what a curriculum is
and the development of the curriculum. it will help you to gain a better understanding of the curriculum development.
The content in the slide mainly focuses on what a curriculum is
and the development of the curriculum. it will help you to gain a better understanding of the curriculum development.
Two teachers comprehensions, perceptions, and use of Understanding by Design
Jason Martel
University of Minnesota
Contact information included in PowerPoint
Many educators heard and use UbD. However, more than often teachers are not trained well in designing high quality UbD units. In may latest review of teacher generated UbD units, I found that most of them lack the ability to understand the stages well. In this workshop, teachers are re-introduced to UbD in terms of unit planning focusing on key determinant issues in UbD unit planning. Teachers are then engaged in redesigning their unit plans in light of the new findings.
Art Education - The Challenges of Curriculum TransitionChristine Miller
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These slides are from a workshop run at the Aurora Institute Symposium in Palm Springs, October 2023
Creating Thematic Units Using Inquiry - BCTELA October 23, 2013Jonathan Vervaet
A presentation given and created with English teachers at BCTELA Conference in Ladner, BC on October 23, 2013. Topics were curriculum design, essential questions, and thematic units.
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The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Ubd - An introduction to Understandings and Transfer Goals
1.
2. Two Key Understandings
• You must design “backward” from
understanding if you want to achieve
understanding “by design”
• Without transparent and important
priorities - stated as performance, not
content - neither teacher nor student can
be effective.
3. Twin Sins of Unit Design:
“Coverage-focused” teaching
“Activity-focused” teaching
Teacher 1 is focused on “getting through” the
material; Teacher 2 is focused on keeping
students active and engaged.
Neither method reveals any clear intellectual
goals. Any understanding that happens is
essentially a piece of good luck.
Understanding is not a part of the design.
4. The BIG ideas of UbD
UbD Big Idea Why important? If not…
`Backward Plans need to be Aimless activity or
`Design well aligned to be coverage
effective
Understanding The essence of Students fail to
Transfer understanding & the apply
point of schooling Poor test results
Understanding How transfer happens Learning is more
via Big Ideas Makes learning more difficult, less
connected engaging, and
fragmented
5. The course is not the
content
Don’t confuse inputs with outputs:
• Thousands of car parts with the ability
to drive
• Drills & skills with playing the game well
• List of ingredients and kitchen skills with
the ability to prepare and cook meals
• The 700 page computer book with the
ability to use the software to write
letters and reports
6. Teaching vs. Learning
Teaching does not cause learning.
Successful attempts by the learner to
learn and use what they have learned
to achieve causes learning
7. I taught spot
to whistle.
I can’t hear
him whistling.
I said I taught
him. I didn’t say
he learned it!
8. Textbooks & Transfer
The textbook almost never focuses
on transfer; rather it provides
mostly logically organized content
and drills only.
9. Teachers, do you get
frustrated by students who:
• fail to recall last week’s or even yesterday’s
lessons?
• cannot transfer their learning?
• don’t have any idea what they are to do?
• don’t “get it” and ask “dumb questions’?
• are bored yet otherwise seem bright?
Then UbD may be able to help you!
10. Backward Design from
“Content Coverage”
I want students to understand -
The Constitution
The three branches of government
This is not a learning goal - this just
states what the content is.
11. Backward Design from the
Understanding Sought
I want students to leave my course having
understood that:
the Constitution was a solution based on
compromise to real and pressing problems and
disagreements in governance; not an idea out of
thin air
the Constitution was a brilliant balance and limit
of powers but was grounded in a long and
sometimes bitter history, with many fights that
are and always will be with us
12. Backward Design from the
Understanding Sought
(continued)
I then want students to transfer that
understanding to a modern relevant
situation:
The problem of designing a government
for Iraq
A system of governance for our school
13. Backward Design from
Understanding
Implications to the teacher:
You have to design your courses
backward from the kinds of
problems, tasks, situations, and
conditions you want students to be
able to eventually handle on their own
(student autonomy).
14. The BIG ideas of UbD
UbD big idea Why important? If not…
Backward Plans need to be Aimless activity or
Design well aligned to be coverage
effective
Understanding The essence of Students fail to
Transfer understanding & the apply
point of schooling Poor test results
Understanding How transfer happens Learning is more
via Big Ideas Makes learning more difficult, less
connected engaging, and
fragmented
15. Transfer:
Defined & Justified
What is transfer of learning?
Transfer of learning is the use of knowledge
and skills, acquired in an earlier context, in a
new context. It occurs when a person’s
learning in one situation influences that
person’s learning and performance in other
situations.
16. The Transfer Question
What should the student be able to
do effectively with a repertoire of
knowledge and skills, increasingly on
their own, in future tasks?
How will transfer ability be
developed over the course of the
course?
17. Transfer - the real
“game” of using content
on your own
Applying prior learning to
* a novel and increasingly new and unfamiliar
looking task
* an increasingly challenging context
and situation in terms of purpose,
audience, dilemmas, etc.
18. Examples in Geography - Draft
• Make decisions in their lives to use resources more
efficiently to live sustainably.
• Critically appraise conditions of well-being that affect
people on this planet.
• Appreciate what you have and how well-being can be
improved for people in our community, our state, and
our world.
• Make choices to act ethically and to influence others
to ensure we can live sustainably into the future.
19. Examples in History - Draft
• Understand the relevance of historical events to the
world in which we live.
• Critically appraise historical and contemporary
claims/decisions.
• Evaluate and use sources of information to address a
question, form an opinion, or to solve a problem
• Communicate to inform and explain a topic, concept, or
process to a variety of audiences.
• Evaluate an argument and develop and/or defend a point
of view.
20. Examples in P.E.
• Live a healthy life by making
healthful choices and decisions
regarding diet, exercise, stress
management, alcohol/drug use.
• Participate in activities that promote
wellness throughout life.
23. The BIG ideas of UbD
UbD big idea Why important? If not…
Backward Plans need to be Aimless activity or
Design well aligned to be coverage
effective
Understanding The essence of Students fail to
Transfer understanding & the apply
point of schooling Poor test results
Understanding How transfer happens Learning is more
via Big Ideas Makes learning more difficult, less
connected engaging, and
fragmented
24. Big Ideas are Linchpins
•Hold together related concepts
•Help facts and skills stick together and stick in
our minds
•At the heart of expert understanding of the
subject
Example: Effective writers hook and
hold their readers.
25. Big Ideas have to be
Uncovered
* Not obvious and often counterintuitive.
* Like “guiding conjectures” – subject to
refinement and adjustment as learning goes
on.
* Require consideration and reconsideration -
Inquiry.
* Have great transfer value.
28. Transfer is VitalTransfer is Vital
In each subject field there are some basic ideas which
summarize much of what scholars have learned…These
ideas give meaning to much that has been learned, and
they provide the basic ideas for dealing with many new
problems… We believe that this is a primary obligation
of the scholars (and) teachers to search constantly
for these abstractions, to find ways of helping
students learn them, and especially to help students
learn how to use them in a great variety of problem
situations…
Bloom, 1981, p.235
Editor's Notes
The biggest thing to remember is that….
The Backward Design model provides a practical framework for designing curriculum, instruction and assessment to make student learning more likely and to ensure the really big ideas are ‘uncovered’.