UBD & DI

Three key instructional roles for teachers: direct instructor, facilitator, and coach.
As an instructor it is important to understand that students need to construct their own solutions to solve problems. One way to ensure that your students learn by doing is to make sure that you act more as a facilitator and coach than as the direct instructor ( Lecturer).



Three Stages of Backward Design:

• Stage 1

• Share the content standards and desired learning outcomes with students at the start of the unit.

• Post and review the essential questions that will be explored during the unit.

• List the important knowledge and skills to be learned

The purpose of stage one is to make sure the students understand why they are there and what they will hopefully will walk away with after the class is over.

• Stage 2

• At the start of a new unit, present to the students the types of assessments that will show evidence of learning ( and understanding) by the end of the unit.
  
• Share the culminating performance tasks and accompanying rubrics so students will know what will be expected and how their work will be judged.
• Show models of student work on similar tasks so students can see what quality work looks like.

Stage two should allow students know how they will be evaluated on what their competency is at the end of the unit. The importance of showing the students what quality work looks like is so that they will have a sense of what direction they will need to take in order to deliver a quality project of their own.

• Stage 3

• Explicitly connect for the students the learning experiences and direct instruction during the unit with the desired results, essential questions, and expected performances
• Have students regularly reflect on what they are learning and how it will help them with upcoming performances and tasks as well as in life and later in school.

• The above information was taken out of the text "Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design. I found these lines to be very helpful in keeping me on track as I develop my final project for Ped II

During step three the students should show a sense of ownership with the educational process and be able to reflect on what they know through such activities as a journal, group activities with reflection on what has been learned and how it can be used.

The whole purpose of backward design is to make sure that the instructor understands what is going to be the goals and objectives of the course first . Second is to develop an understanding of how the student will be assessed and last of all devise a strategy of what teaching methods you will use to make sure the students will understand how to use what they have learned and not just learn facts.