using topics for understanding by design
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STUDENTS LOVE TOPICS!!
TOPICS: A TOOL TO HELP TEACHERS
EFFECTIVELY DESIGN COURSES*Compatible with Understanding by Design; Project Based
Learning; Blended Learning; Inquiry Based Learning; Flipped Classrooms; and Individualized Learning
PLANNING USING TOPICS
• UbD: Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe– 7 tenets of UbD, 3 connected to TOPICS– 1. Learning is enhanced when teachers think
purposefully about curricular planning. – 2. Effective curriculum is planned backward fromlong-term, desired results through a three-stage design process (Desired Results, Evidence, and Learning Plan). This process helps avoid the common problems of treating the textbook as the curriculum rather than a resource, and activity-oriented teaching in which no clear priorities and purposes are apparent.
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• 3. Teachers are coaches of understanding, not mere purveyors of content knowledge, skill, or activity.– http://
www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/siteASCD/publications/UbD_WhitePaper0312.pdf
– Not that different from the Flipped Classroom idea or Projects or Inquiry Based Learning
Planning Using Topics
• Think about what can be done in a year, or in a grading period not about the textbook
• Curriculum driven by standards and objectives not by chapters in the textbook
• Can show meeting common core and beyond• The Private School Difference
• Think about what will be assessed, what are the units
• Each unit gets a Topic• Students (and Parents!) know where
assessments will fall, what is to be covered is transparent
• Within Topics can provide more challenges for more gifted kids
Planning
• If using UbD topics allows the backwards design planning and demands the purposeful thinking about curriculum
• (flip to AP Euro page as example)• Project Based Learning-topic for each project• Inquiry Based Learning-set up within topics for
webquests or other tools for inquiry
Within Topics
• UbD-teachers as coaches, essential questions, tools to learn the material
• Individualized learning-many options for all types of learning inside of topics
• Blended Learning—can be set up to be done at home
• Flipped Learning—videos within, work to be done in class also within
Setting up Individual Topics
• Text Boxes: essential questions, project or inquiry instructions, assessment information
• Downloads: essential files• Links: internet resources• Audio: podcasts, teachers must know how to
find and to upload• Video: same issue they must be taught how• Professional Development and Time!!!• Examples
INTERESTING THOUGHT?!
• Collaboration between schools possible?• If Topics are so developed that students can
follow through a curriculum with coaching only in discussion board, can assessments be given by ‘home’ school but students from different WhippleHill schools in a course?
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