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Backward Design
Greece Athena School District gets it right, again. Excellent outline of Wiggins and McTighe's definition of essential questions.
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Can Explain: provide
thorough, supportable and justifiable accounts of phenomena, facts
and data
Can Interpret: tell
meaningful stories; offer apt translations; provide a revealing
historical or personal dimension to ideas and events
Can Apply: effectively
use and adapt what we know in diverse contexts
Have perspective: see
and hear points of view through critical eyes and ears; see the big
picture
Can empathize:
find value in what others might find
odd, alien, or implausible; perceive sensitively on the basis of
prior direct experience
Have self-knowledge:
perceive the personal style,
prejudices, projections, and habits of mind that both shape and
impede our own understanding; aware of what we do not understand and
why understanding is so hard.
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Collaborative site for UbD planning and resources. Hope to contibute to this in the coming months.
[Digital] Literacy | backward design template
UbD template. There is one I found elsewhere that I like better, but this one works in a pinch too.
Big Ideas - Exploring the Essential Questions of Education
Great example of deepening thought through doubt and belief.
Big Ideas - Exploring the Essential Questions of Education
Storehouse of lesson ideas for teachers based on essential understandings.
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