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1 Backward Design SED 509
2 What Is It? Backward Design is a process of lesson planning created by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe and introduced in Understanding by Design (1998). This lesson design process concentrates on developing the lesson in a different order than in traditional lesson planning. Treats teachers as designers. An essential act of our profession is the crafting of curriculum and learning experiences to meet specified purposes. too many teachers focus on the teaching and not the learning. Reaction to the twin sins of traditional design: activity-focused and coverage-focused teaching.
3 How Is It Different? Traditional Goals & objectives Backward Design Goals & objectives Activities Assessments Assessments Activities
4 Identify desired results. Determine acceptable evidence. Plan learning experiences and instruction. Wiggins, G & McTighe, J. (1998). Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
5 Identify Desired Results. Enduring Understandings: What specific insights about big ideas do we want students to leave with? What Essential Questions will frame the teaching and learning, pointing toward key issues and ideas, and suggest meaningful and provocative inquiry into content? What should students know and be able to do? What content standards are addressed explicitly by the unit?
6 Why goals?
7 Starting with standards Standards (benchmarks, learning results, performance indicators, etc.) A Nation At Risk (1983) Distributed nature of U.S. education 1990 s federal funds used to pay for drafting of national curriculum standards Science National Science Education Standards (NRC), Benchmarks for Science Literacy (AAAS) Math Curriculum and Evaluation Standards (NCTM) State standards No Child Left Behind (2002) Common Core Standards
8 Using standards Purpose guides, not prescriptive Unpacking standards General structure: Nature/history of discipline Unifying concepts and processes Content
9 How can we take a mass of content knowledge and shape it into engaging, thoughtprovoking, and effective work?
10 Essential Questions Serve as doorways through which learners explore the key concepts, themes, theories, issues, and problems that reside within the content (p. 106) Center on major issues, problems, concerns, interests, or themes relevant to students lives and to their communities. Go to the heart of the discipline and highlight big ideas. Are open-ended, non-judgmental, meaningful and purposeful with emotive force and intellectual bite, and invite an exploration of ideas. Encourage collaboration amongst students, teachers, and the community. Raise other important questions. Have no one obvious right answer. Are deliberately framed to provoke and sustain student interest.
11 Essential Questions For example: Why should students read the novel, Lord of the Flies? Why this book and not another? What will they gain from this experience that will make a difference to them? What are the big ideas in this work? What makes this book a classic? Essential questions relevant to Lord of the Flies might include: What does it mean to be civilized? Are modern civilizations more civilized than ancient ones? What is necessary to ensure civilized behavior? Do children need to be taught to be civilized? What causes us to lose civilized behavior?
12 Essential Questions E.G.s Mathematics: What makes an estimate reasonable? How can change be described mathematically? What kinds of questions can be answered using proportional reasoning? Why do we use roots and powers? When is multiplication useful? How does an architect use geometry? What makes a mathematical argument convincing?
13 Essential Questions E.G.s Science: Is it possible to make a list of the characteristics of living things that fits all known organisms? How does an organisms structure affect its ability to survive? How can you tell that energy has transformed? Why is a perpetual motion machine impossible? How is life on earth affected by the universe around it? How are water and air related? Do animals need plants to survive? Do plants need animals? Is the earth unique? Do all scientists follow the scientific method? How does the ocean affect someone living in Corvallis? What would happen if all of the worms disappeared? Why is there order to the periodic table? Is Corvallis in any danger from natural disasters?
14 Essential Questions Overarching essential questions Unifying concepts and processes (science) Practices (math) Topical essential questions Content standards A good unit requires both
15 Your turn
16 Enduring Understanding Worth being familiar with Important to know and do Enduring Understanding Wiggins, G & McTighe, J. (1998). Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
17 Taking a closer look at Enduring Understandings: They... Are specific generalizations about the big ideas. They summarize the key meanings, inferences, and importance of the content Require uncoverage because they are not facts to the novice, but unobvious inferences drawn from facts - counter-intuitive & easily misunderstood Are what students should remember 20 years from now. Are deliberately framed as a full sentence moral of the story Students will understand THAT
18 Examples - math There are many ways to represent a number. In certain situations, an estimate is as useful as an exact answer. Real-world situations can be represented symbolically and graphically. Algebraic expressions and equations generalize relationships from specific cases. Proportional relationships express how quantities change in relationship to each other. Fractions, decimals, and percents express a relationship between two number. Relationships among quantities can often be expressed symbolically in more than one way. Linear functions arise when there is a constant rate of change. Geometric models are useful in representing algebraic relationships. Inductive and deductive reasoning can be used to formulate mathematical arguments.
19 Examples - science Systems have cycles and patterns that allow us to make predictions. All living things are made from cells that carry on chemical reactions necessary to sustain life. Life depends on energy flow within systems. An ecosystem transfers matter and energy from one organism to another. The diversity of life is the result of ongoing evolutionary change. Species alive today have evolved from ancient common ancestors. DNA is the universal code for life; it enables an organism to transmit hereditary information and, along with the environment, determines an organism s characteristics. All changes in and interactions of matter are associated with changes in energy. Scientific ideas evolve as new information is discovered. The periodic table is arranged in a logical sequence that can be used to predict the properties of elements. Energy not only provides the ability to do work, but drives systems and cycles of our universe, solar system, Earth, and life. Acids and bases and the ph scale are important to understanding the environment, household chemicals, and homeostasis in the body.
20 Your turn
21 Determine Acceptable Evidence How will the enduring understandings be measured? Use your essential questions! Match the goals to the appropriate type of assessment
22 Assessment Continuum Wiggins, G & McTighe, J. (1998). Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
23 Reliability: Snapshot vs. Photo Album We need patterns that overcome inherent measurement error Sound assessment requires multiple evidence over time - a photo album vs. a single snapshot
24 Curricular Priorities and Assessment Methods Assessment Types Traditional quizzes and tests Paper-pencil Selected-response Constructed-response Worth being familiar with Important to know and do Performance tasks and projects Open-ended Complex Authentic Enduring understanding
25 Your turn
26 Plan Learning Experiences Learning experiences are planned after desired results and the method of measurement of those results are identified. What will the students need to know and be able to do in order to achieve the desired goal, learning, or understanding? These will then be translated to the specific lesson plans that make up your unit.
27 Lesson objectives - science Students will know that Cells are the basic unit of life and combine themselves into increasingly complex levels of organization. The cell membrane is involved in protection, transport, and maintenance of the internal cell environment. Plants transform light energy into chemical energy for storage and use in the process of photosynthesis. Students will be able to Mount and stain onion root tip cells. Utilize a microscope to identify the parts of the cell. Design a controlled experiment.
28 Lesson objectives - math Students will know that Students will be able to Students will know that solving linear inequalities utilizes inverse operations that maintain the relationship between quantities in an inequality. Students will be able to solve linear inequalities using inverse operations, properties of addition and multiplication, and the distributive property.
29 Misconception Alert: the work is non-linear It doesn t matter where you start as long as the final design is coherent (all elements aligned) Clarifying one element often forces changes to another element The template blueprint is logical but the process is non-linear
30 Questions
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