17. Stage 1- Identify Desired Results Established Goals
What are BIG IDEAS? (Think CONCEPTS )
Core idea at the “heart” of the discipline
Enduring: has lasting, universal value
Transferable to other topics/disciplines
Connective of facts and skills
Requires “un-converage” or “unpacking”
18. How can I tell if something is a Big Idea?
Does it have many layers and nuances, not obvious to the naïve or inexperienced person?
Does it yield optimal depth and breadth of insight into the subject?
Do you have to dig deep to really understand its meanings and implications even if you have a surface grasp of it?
Is it (therefore) prone to misunderstanding as well as disagreement?
Are you likely to change your mind about its meaning and importance over a lifetime?
Does it reflect the core ideas as judged by experts?
19. Concepts as Big Ideas What else can you think of? Friendship Perspective Balance Fairness Cycles Conflict Culture Diversity Symbols Power Patterns Migration Communication Interaction Freedom Environment Charity Abundance Exploration Justice Change
20. Use Big Ideas to form Understandings and Essential Questions
Essential Questions
Important questions that will reoccur throughout our lives
Helps students make sense of Big Ideas through questioning and then making decisions.
Engages and motivates.
Understandings
What insights will students take away about the meanings of the content via Big Ideas?
Understandings summarize the desired insights we want the students to realize about the Big Ideas
Understandings connect the dots; they tell us what our knowledge means and make sense of facts and skills.
21. Stage 1- Identify Desired Results Understandings (Often called “Enduring” Understandings)
Written as generalizations
Framed around Big Ideas
Beyond specific content
Cuts to the core of the discipline
The overall “A-ha!”
Start with “Students will understand THAT”
NOT : facts, definitions, trite statements, the obvious, “duh”
22. Stage 1- Identify Desired Results Understandings
Non-examples
Audience and purpose
Water covers three-fourths of the earth’s surface
A free press is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment.
Examples
An effective story engages the reader by setting up tensions about what will happen next
When water disappears, it turns into water vapor and can reappear as liquid if the water is cooled
Democracy requires a courageous, not just a free press.
23.
Push us to the heart of things
Cause genuine and relevant inquiry into big ideas and core content
Provoke deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, new understanding, and more questions
Require students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support ideas, and justify answers
Stimulate vital, ongoing rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, prior lessons
Spark meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences
Naturally recur, creating opportunities for transer to other situations and subjects
Stage 1- Identify Desired Results Essential Questions…
24. Stage 1- Identify Desired Results Essential Questions
Non-examples
How many minutes are in an hour? A day?
Between what years did the Italian Renaissance occur?
What is foreshadowing? Can you find an example?
Examples
How would life be different if we couldn’t measure time?
In what ways does art reflect, as well as shape, culture?
How do effective writers hook and hold their readers?
25. What do I do with Essential Questions?
Post them in your classroom
Use them in planning, assessing and during instruction.
Use them as a “touchstone” for discussion
If I don’t …the questions disappear…and meaning, transfer, and connections are lost…
26. From Big Ideas, to Understandings, to Essential Questions Big Ideas Literature Culture Human condition Understanding Great literature from various cultures explores enduring themes and reveals recurrent aspects of the human condition Transfer& Independent thinkers Essential Question How can stories from other places and times be about me?
27. Stage 1- Identify Desired Results Knowledge and Skills
In order for students to perform well on the assessments and competently answer the Essential questions…
What should they KNOW?
What should they BE ABLE TO DO?
28. Stage 1- Identify Desired Results Knowledge and Skills
Skills include…
Basic skills
Communication skills
Research/inquiry/investigation skills
Thinking skills (problem- solving, decision making)
Study skills
Interpersonal or group collaboration skills
Knowledge includes…
Vocabulary/terminology
Definitions
Key factual information
Critical details
Important events and people
Sequence/timeline
These questions HAVE a correct answer!
29. Stage 1- Identify Desired Results Knowledge and Skills
Examples…
Recognize and use pioneer vocabulary in context
Use Cavalieri’s Principle to compare volumes
Plan balanced diets for themselves and others
Examples…
Pioneer vocabulary terms
Cavalieri’s Pr