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Today’s Essential Question. What does UbD look like/mean at Darby High School?. Today’s Enduring Understanding. UbD is NOT about forms!!. UbD is…. focused on exposure to best practices about promoting lasting understanding about simplification/clarification a thought process - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Today’s Essential Question
• What does UbD look like/mean at Darby High School?
Today’s Enduring Understanding
• UbD is NOT about forms!!
UbD is…
• focused on exposure to best practices
• about promoting lasting understanding
• about simplification/clarification
• a thought process
• helpful in planning instruction around standards
• an organizational tool that helps the teacher
UbD is…
• a way to make sure your students know “why you are doing this.”
• a way to make sure YOU know “why you are doing this.”
• a conceptual framework that is open to the teacher’s interpretation
• a method to narrow an increasingly widening curriculum
UbD is…
• related to and in concert with Quality Work and 7 Habits
• a way to validate what you are already doing
UbD is NOT…
• dependent on forms
• a precursor to requiring more paperwork (lesson plans)
• an evaluation tool
• related to major structural/organizational/procedural change
Indicators of Success
• A teacher who plans for instruction by looking at the standards to be taught and designing the assessment first, then considering acceptable evidence, and then designing classroom activities.
Evidence of Success
• A teacher who has begun to start each class period by stating the essential question and/or listing enduring understandings
Evidence of Success
• A teacher who has eliminated an activity or a concept because he has realized that it is not tied to the desired results of the course.
Evidence of Success
• A teacher who is familiar with and takes into consideration the six facets of understanding when planning assessments and classroom activities:
• Explanation, interpretation, application, perspective, empathy, self-knowledge
What does UbD look like at Darby High School?
• Teachers at Darby High School have undergone a year of UbD training in an effort to:– Continually model best practices
– Define how instructional decisions are made
– Ensure that academic content standards and quality work remain a primary focus
– Aid teacher planning/organization
– Promote student understanding
– Validate our work
Did you notice…
• I never mentioned forms?!?!?!