Understanding by Design (UbD) Process to be done with NEISD Curriculum
Stage 1: Determine the Desired Results
What do we want students to know?
- Use Transfer Goals as desired outcomes for student habits of learning.
- Essential Questions can be used to develop unit Understandings.
- Essential Content is listed as what students must know and be able to do.
Stage 2: Determine acceptable Evidence of Learning
How will we know if students have learned it?
- Use different assessment types to measure progress towards the desired results for student learning.
- Determine for which desired understanding(s) will a Performance Task be used as evidence.
- Determine for which desired understanding(s) will Writing Prompts be used as evidence.
- Determine for which desired understanding(s) will Selected Response be used as evidence.
- Establish criteria by which the teacher will know if students have learned the desired concepts.
Stage 3: Design the Learning Plan
How will we respond when students haven’t learned?
How do we enrich and extend learning when students have already learned the concept?
How do we enrich and extend learning when students have already learned the concept?
- The learning plan begins with a pre-assessment of previously-learned concepts.
- Throughout the development of the concepts, teachers/students use the essential vocabulary
- Teacher clarity defines how students will know the desired learning target and how they know they have learned it (the success criteria).
- Students should be made aware of both the learning target and the success criteria.
- As students advance towards the learning target, the teacher should formatively assess student progress and give students feedback.
- Students who have IEPs can benefit from differentiated instruction that includes graphic organizers and varied co-teaching models.
- English-language learners benefit from differentiated instruction that includes student-use of anchor charts and teacher-use of cognates.
- Students who are ready to extend their learning can benefit from extension problems.
- After the teacher determines the desired learning target and needs of students, teachers can search through resources to design the learning experiences.