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Picture this Choose a picture that shows something about how you feel about using new unit planning templates, and/or creating new unit planning maps. Share at your tables Choose someone to share out to the group, 1 from each table.

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Using Understanding by Design Principles

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Introductions 2 Truths, and a Lie (what is he hiding?):

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Whip-Around Please share your name, school, & grade or subject

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Norms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMOnr0GxU8&feature=fvst Take Care of Yourself! Technology Silence is Golden Parking Lot Time-honored Traditions What else?

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Knowing Your Learning Target Read See Learning packet (x2) Create Gallery Walk Questions

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Guiding Question:Description: What will I be able to do by the end of this class? I can: Use resources on the Cur. & Inst. wiki. Plan units ~learning targets ~pre/post assessments to measure growth What do I need to learn in order to be able to do that? Ill learn to: Locate and navigate the wiki Modify templates for my own use Understand that: ~knowing why topics are important to me, & to my students, informs my instruction Know purpose of cells in the unit template Identify what skills & knowledge need assessing Create assessments accessible to all students, aligned with power standards, whats measured, and real-world applications. How will I show what I know? I will: Complete 4 RW&C unit planning templates (2 in class,2 independently.

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Learning Target for App. UbD: Today and tomorrow we will learn how our districts new UbD unit planning template and Learning Targets support robust learning. Remember, Understanding by Design is a strategy for planned learning that begins with the end in mind. Today we will examine the new scope & sequence, the unit planning template, and examples of completed work. Then, in your learning teams, youll create some of your own models using the template. At the end of our time together tomorrow, youll answer the question: How do using the districts new UbD planning template and Learning Targets together apply the concept of Robust Learning to student learning? Independent work for the last two days involves completing two more R, W, & C Unit Planning Templates.

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Trivial Pursuit: What is the districts definition of Robust Learning? Buzz at your tables. Whoever can define it, wins!

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Self-assess!135 NavigateI have the *!*@#! URLIts bookmarkedIt automatically opens Use the Templates I type in the real one, print it, then delete my text I saved my own copy. I copy and paste freely from the Scope & Sequence & Placemats, directly into my own version of the UBD template. Identify Knowledge, Skills, and Create Common Assessments Im just accessing my old exercise books and assessments that match the new standards and scope & sequence. I use Learning Targets to maximize student learning, and combine priority learnings from our placemats across content areas, where possible & when appropriate. 3 plus, Im collaborating with others to create common assessments that demonstrate real- world tasks, to which students can relate, and are directly tied to standards.

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Are we lost yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detail page&v=h_mvchWzrKk http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detail page&v=h_mvchWzrKk Orient yourself: TCAP its all about the standards (25% new this year) The wiki (google wiki spaces) Sign into the wiki: https://learningfacilitatorresources.wikispaces.com/ https://learningfacilitatorresources.wikispaces.com/ BOOKMARK IT! Lets get started!

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A,B,A, 60-45-30 Please pair with someone new to you. We can have only 1 three-some, if necessary Identify whos A, & whos B Partner A shares everything that person remembers about Learning Targets At the switch, Partner B shares all, original contributions only At the switch, Partner A continues, again, original contributions only

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BREAK!

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In-put on current work: Fundamental flaws: New protocol Newly unpacked standards Were in the Plan phase We still need to do, check, and adjust http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

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