Backwards Design
This concept emphasizes beginning with a goal and following up by guiding students in finding the best route to achieve it.
What is backwards design?
The two different but related ideas that this chapter covers.
What are design and understanding?
This provides a focus for curriculum, assessment, and instruction.
What is a standard?
How many facets of understanding are there?
What is six?
The title of Chapter 5.
What is Essential Questions: Doorways to Understanding?
Identifying desired results, determining acceptable evidence, and planning learning experiences and instruction are parts of this concept.
What are the stages of Backwards Design?
The facts, verifiable claims, and the "right or wrong" are examples of what?
What is knowledge?
To identify the big ideas and core tasks contained within.
What is the reason teachers "unpack" standards?
In the chapter, this facet is referred to as "critical and insightful points of view".
What is perspective?
A question that pushes us to the heart of things--the essence.
What is an essential question?
True or False: There is a UBD Design Matrix on the last page of this chapter.
What is true?
The meaning of facts, the theory that provides coherence and meaning to those facts, and a matter of degree or sophistication are examples of what?
What is understanding?
The numerical amount of transfer demand/degree of cue tasks.
What is four?
In the chapter, this facet is referred to as the ability to gain insight into a person's feelings and worldview.
What is empathy?
An example of this type of essential question is as follows: What are common factors in the rise and fall of powerful nations?
What is an overarching question?
This tangible guide helps teachers to internalize the backward design process.
What is the UbD Template?
A man who questioned knowledge claims by asking things like, "Why is that so?", "Why do we think that?", and "What justifies such a view?"
Who is Socrates?
Examples of these include "ecosystem", "graph", "story", and "experiment".
What are basic terms?
The branch of philosophy that addresses what it means to know and understand knowledge and understanding, and how knowledge differs from belief and opinion.
What is "epistemology"?
Important questions that recur throughout all our lives, core ideas and inquiries within a discipline, help students effectively inquire and make sense, and will most engage a specific and diverse set of learners are parts of this concept.
What are the four connotations regarding essential questions?
An overall view of backward design, without appearing overwhelming.
What is a gestalt?
The author of Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive Domain.
Who is Benjamin Bloom?
Examples of these include "natural selection", "best fit curve of the data", "meaning as projected onto the story", and "inherent error and fallibility of experimental methods and results".
The six facets of understanding.
What are explanation, interpretation, application, perspective, empathy, and self-knowledge?
The authors of "Understanding by Design".
Who are Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe?