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Enhancing Instruction with Understanding by Design at Darby High School

Explore how UbD at Darby High focuses on best practices, lasting understanding, simplification, and more. Discover how it aids teacher planning and student comprehension.

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Enhancing Instruction with Understanding by Design at Darby High School

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  1. Today’s Essential Question • What does UbD look like/mean at Darby High School?

  2. Today’s Enduring Understanding • UbD is NOT about forms!!

  3. UbD is… • focused on exposure to best practices • about promoting lasting understanding • about simplification/clarification • a thought process • helpful in planning instruction around standards • an organizational tool that helps the teacher

  4. UbD is… • a way to make sure your students know “why you are doing this.” • a way to make sure YOU know “why you are doing this.” • a conceptual framework that is open to the teacher’s interpretation • a method to narrow an increasingly widening curriculum

  5. UbD is… • related to and in concert with Quality Work and 7 Habits • a way to validate what you are already doing

  6. UbD is NOT… • dependent on forms • a precursor to requiring more paperwork (lesson plans) • an evaluation tool • related to major structural/organizational/procedural change

  7. Indicators of Success • A teacher who plans for instruction by looking at the standards to be taught and designing the assessment first, then considering acceptable evidence, and then designing classroom activities.

  8. Evidence of Success • A teacher who has begun to start each class period by stating the essential question and/or listing enduring understandings

  9. Evidence of Success • A teacher who has eliminated an activity or a concept because he has realized that it is not tied to the desired results of the course.

  10. Evidence of Success • A teacher who is familiar with and takes into consideration the six facets of understanding when planning assessments and classroom activities: • Explanation, interpretation, application, perspective, empathy, self-knowledge

  11. What does UbD look like at Darby High School? • Teachers at Darby High School have undergone a year of UbD training in an effort to: • Continually model best practices • Define how instructional decisions are made • Ensure that academic content standards and quality work remain a primary focus • Aid teacher planning/organization • Promote student understanding • Validate our work

  12. Did you notice… • I never mentioned forms?!?!?!

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