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What is UbD?
Essential Questions. Big Ideas. Backward Design. Transfer. Do these terms sound familiar? You might have heard teachers and other educators use them. They are key components of Understanding by Design (UbD)-a groundbreaking but also common-sense approach for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment. At the core of the UbD framework is the goal that students achieve deep understanding of ideas-not just for "the test," but for life. See an Overview
Grant Wiggins discusses the pillars of UbD
UBD and English Language Learners
Featuring ELL Expert Dr. Jim Cummins
Glossary of Terms
Authentic assessment task: A task designed to simulate or replicate important, real-world challenges, such as asking a student to use knowledge in contexts where the purpose, audiences, and situational variables are genuine.
Backward design: A process for designing a curriculum or unit by beginning with the end in mind and designing toward that end.
Big ideas: The core concepts, principles, theories, and processes that should serve as the focal point of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
Enduring understandings: The important ideas or core processes that have lasting value beyond the classroom. Essential question: A provocative question designed to engage student interest and guide inquiry into the important ideas in a field of study.
Facets of understanding: The six different kinds of understanding identified in Understanding by Design-explanation, interpretation, application, perspective, empathy, and self-knowledge.
Definitions adapted from the Glossary contained in The Understanding by Design Handbook
by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe (1999), pp. 273-283.
Essential Questions. Big Ideas. Backward Design. Transfer. Do these terms sound familiar? You might have heard teachers and other educators use them. They are key components of Understanding by Design (UbD)-a groundbreaking but also common-sense approach for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment. At the core of the UbD framework is the goal that students achieve deep understanding of ideas-not just for "the test," but for life. See an Overview
Grant Wiggins discusses the pillars of UbD
UBD and English Language Learners
Featuring ELL Expert Dr. Jim Cummins
 UbD for English Language Learners - *New! |
Glossary of Terms
Authentic assessment task: A task designed to simulate or replicate important, real-world challenges, such as asking a student to use knowledge in contexts where the purpose, audiences, and situational variables are genuine.
Backward design: A process for designing a curriculum or unit by beginning with the end in mind and designing toward that end.
Big ideas: The core concepts, principles, theories, and processes that should serve as the focal point of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
Enduring understandings: The important ideas or core processes that have lasting value beyond the classroom. Essential question: A provocative question designed to engage student interest and guide inquiry into the important ideas in a field of study.
Facets of understanding: The six different kinds of understanding identified in Understanding by Design-explanation, interpretation, application, perspective, empathy, and self-knowledge.
Definitions adapted from the Glossary contained in The Understanding by Design Handbook
by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe (1999), pp. 273-283.
