UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN FRAMEWORK

UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN FRAMEWORK

1. It works under 7 tenets

   • Learning is enhanced when teachers think purposefully about curricular planning.
   • Teaching is focused on the development of students understanding and transfer the learning.
   • Students autonomously make sense of their learning through authentic performance.
   • Effective curriculum is planned backward from long-term.
   • Teachers are facilitators of understanding.
   • Regularly reviewing curriculum enhance quality and effectiveness.
   • To reflect a continual improvement approach to student achievement and teacher craft.

2. It offers a plan and structure to guide curriculum, assessment and instruction

   • Focus on teachin for understanding and learning transfer
   • Desing curriculum "backward" from those ends

3. Three main aligned stages

   • Identify desired results.
     • Learning priorities are established
       • Goals are considered focus on "transfer Learning".
   • Determine assessment evidence.
     • With the end to document and validate achieved learnings.
       • Two kinds of assessment
         • Performance tasks
           • It asks students to apply their learning
             • In order to they can
               • Explain concepts.
               • Interpet data
               • Apply what they know.
               • Have self-knowledge on the meaning of learning.
               • Demonstrate perspective of their points of view.
               • Display empathy
         • Other evidences
           • Work samples
           • Traditional quizzes
           • Tests
           • Observation
   • Plan learning experience and instruction
     • Teachers plan their most appropriate lessons and learning activities
       • To address the goals of
         • Transfer
         • Meaning making
         • Acquisition