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3-DAY Workshop on Understanding by Desgin
July 8-10, 2008 - Latham, New York
Presenter- Jay McTighe


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Note: Skipped clips are intentional. Page #s refer to the Understanding By Design Workbook.
Occassionally I forgot to turn off record during pauses -- so short some silent times.
Session Notes captured with the Pulse Pen from Livescribe.

Clips Summary Minutes
01 Introduction Superintendent - Woodbury School District 06:18
02 UBD Looking at the familiar in new ways. 16:17
04 Schedule, Overview of Big Ideas, Essential Questions, Assessment, Misconceptions and Misundstandings, Backward Design 11:48
05 Backward Design - Framework for building coherent curriculum - Stages to accomplishing this. Stage 1: Goals, Stage 2: Think like assessors,
Stage 3: Lesson planning - under umbrella of 1 & 2.
06:01
06 UBD Templates, visualization of alignment or misalignment. 03:31
07

Logic of Backward Design.
Performance based teaching & assessments.
Two potential problems averted - 1. activity oriented & 2. coverage vs. important ideas.

07:46
09 Recommendation for training back home - unrealistic expectation. It is best to use what you teach and immerse yourself in the process." Here is what I've done and what I can show you thus far. I'm a learner."
Examples of Backward Design in action - Sample templates.
07:12
10 Jot down ideas on templates - refine as you go. 00:35
11 Short Q&A session. After each section in workbook - FAQs.
UBD is not to plan every lesson - Unit of Study or larger design work - to an entire year, entire course. Detail look at Stage 1.
07:29
12 Established goals are related to Content Standards. Design standards bottom of p.60 used to assess our own UBD work in Stage 1. 00:51
13 Stage 1: Understandings and deriving understandings from Content Standards. Problem is too much content within Standards throughout the country -- NYS is good in comparison. Unpacking the Content Standards.
Finding the Big Idea - making them obvious - correlation does not ensure causality. Tool to help - upside down triangle - go below surface.
09:00
14 Example 1: WWII example uses larger transferrable Understandings and ideas. Understandings make it easier to select the facts to emphasize.
Example 2: Reading - making sense of text.
06:41
15 Short Q&A. Essential Questions for the Understandings in WWII and Reading examples. Grant Wiggins identifies two types of Essential Questions. Broad, enduring, debatable and Guiding but still thought provoking. Should have EQ for all Understandings - not necessariy one for one. Know your subject well and wordsmithing. Tool - 3 Intersecting Circles - prioritizing frame. 12:32
16 Schooling by Design, Integrating Differentiated Instruction and UBD
Coffee Filter Tool - So what, What is the moral, What would happen if we couldn't... etc.
06:46
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18   17:09
19   08:42
20   10:21
21   01:31
22   05:43
23   05:16
24   09:24
25   01:28
26   10:55
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34   13:51
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44   07:29