Explains a backward design process to avoid common problems. Proposes an approach to curriculum designed to engage students in inquiry & “uncovering” ideas. Proposes a set of …
Understanding by Design (UbD) is a curriculum-planning framework, not a prescriptive program. UbD focuses on helping students come to an understanding of important ideas and transfer …
Understanding is the result of facts acquiring meaning for the learner: To grasp the meaning of a thing, an event, or a situation is to see it in its relations to other things: to see how it operates …
The Understanding by Design Guide to Advanced Concepts in Creating and Review-ing Units is targeted to individuals and groups interested in refining their skills in designing units of study …
The end goal of UbD is understanding and the ability to transfer learnings – to appropriately connect, make sense of, and use discrete knowledge and skills in context.
Understanding can be understood in different ways. An empirical inquiry might use experiments, interviews, surveys, and the like to uncover the mechanisms that make understanding …
“The Six Facets of Understanding” give us categories that help make it easier to recognize student understanding. Each facet helps enforce the idea that students must use their …