In stage 1 of Understanding by Design, there are a few parts.
Established goals should be based on content standards. These are the long term goals that the teacher needs to make sure not to lose focus of. In my assignment last week my established goals were based off the content standards. It is important to simplify the content standards into bite size chunks.
The next part of Stage 1 UbD is Understandings. These should be the big ideas which are transferable. These big ideas are the meat and potatoes of the content. The meaningful part of the content and they connect the facts with necessary skills. In my Stage 1 outline, I looked at the established goals to determine what are the main things that the students need to understand.
Essential Questions should guide students towards theses understandings. They guide children through the lessons so that they are learning on their own. The teacher must make sure that these questions lead the children through the content and will help the students gain the most they can out of it. When I looked at my understandings the essential questions were clear. I asked questions which would lead students towards these understandings. For example, in a writing lesson I asked "is the information you are writing about relevant to your topic?". This corresponded to the understanding that students must have that information should be relevant to the topic at hand.
Knowledge and Skills are the "building blocks" of the desired understanding. The teacher may have an entire lesson in mind and what the students will understand through the lesson, but the students need to have these basic skills in order to have long term success. The knowledge and skills are based on what the goals are. Knowledge is the straightforward facts that should be learned. Skills are procedures and methods that students should be able to do and they require practice. To continue the example above about relevant information in writing, in the knowledge section i wrote that students will know that choosing relevant information is important. A skill they will be able to do is sift through the information to only find what is relevant.
Established goals should be based on content standards. These are the long term goals that the teacher needs to make sure not to lose focus of. In my assignment last week my established goals were based off the content standards. It is important to simplify the content standards into bite size chunks.
The next part of Stage 1 UbD is Understandings. These should be the big ideas which are transferable. These big ideas are the meat and potatoes of the content. The meaningful part of the content and they connect the facts with necessary skills. In my Stage 1 outline, I looked at the established goals to determine what are the main things that the students need to understand.
Essential Questions should guide students towards theses understandings. They guide children through the lessons so that they are learning on their own. The teacher must make sure that these questions lead the children through the content and will help the students gain the most they can out of it. When I looked at my understandings the essential questions were clear. I asked questions which would lead students towards these understandings. For example, in a writing lesson I asked "is the information you are writing about relevant to your topic?". This corresponded to the understanding that students must have that information should be relevant to the topic at hand.
Knowledge and Skills are the "building blocks" of the desired understanding. The teacher may have an entire lesson in mind and what the students will understand through the lesson, but the students need to have these basic skills in order to have long term success. The knowledge and skills are based on what the goals are. Knowledge is the straightforward facts that should be learned. Skills are procedures and methods that students should be able to do and they require practice. To continue the example above about relevant information in writing, in the knowledge section i wrote that students will know that choosing relevant information is important. A skill they will be able to do is sift through the information to only find what is relevant.
Your explanation is so clear!
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ReplyDeleteVery clear Shany!
ReplyDeleteNice reflection Shany! I like how you wrote that the Understandings are the big ideas that are like meat and potatoes of the content.
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