“Understanding by Design”

Last updated Sep 5, 2023

• Source: #EDUC130_3 ; Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
  • https://files.ascd.org/staticfiles/ascd/pdf/siteASCD/publications/UbD_WhitePaper0312.pdf
• Keywords: Cards/permanent notes
  • #design #teaching #education
• Relevant Notes:
  • Enduring Understandings

• The Understanding by Design® framework (UbDTM framework) offers a planning process and structure to guide curriculum, assessment, and instruction.
  • Based on the eponymous book by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
• Its two key ideas are contained in the title: 1) focus on teaching and assessing for understanding and learning transfer, and 2) design curriculum “backward” from those ends.

The UbD framework offers a three-stage backward design process for curriculum planning, and includes a template and set of design tools that embody the process. A key concept in UbD framework is ==alignment== (i.e., all three stages must clearly align not only to standards, but also to one another). In other words, the Stage 1 con- tent and understanding must be what is assessed in Stage 2 and taught in Stage 3.

1. Identify Desired Results
2. Determine Assessment Evidence
3. Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction