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Teaching Journal: Understanding by Design Framework

2/12/2013

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Authors and summary: This article is written by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins. It provides a framework for a three stage framework of teaching. Summarized below:
  • focus on teaching for understanding
  • design curriculum backward from those ends
  • indicators of understanding are the capacity to explain, interpret, apply, shift perspective, empathize and self-assess
  • teachers are coaches
  • cognitive psychology and student achievement studies drive the framework
  • domain independence is the goal
  • stage 2 assessment should be aligned with stage 1 goals
  • stage 3 lesson planning should be aligned with stage 1 goals of Transfer, Meaning making and Acquisiton

Thoughts: Seems like a straight forward way of teaching. I don't typically like doing anything without the goal in mind and can't really imagine doing it any other way. The assessment in stage 2 seems to be the difficult part of the framework. I think some understandings can be very difficult assess. However, I do like the teachers as coaches metaphor.
Learning priorities are established by long-term performance goals—what it is we want students, in the end, to be able to do with what they have learned. The bottom-line goal of education is transfer.The point of school is not to simply excel in each class, but to be able to use one’s learning in other settings.
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