Let's take a first grade road trip through organizing outcomes, activities, and assessments with course unit design models: Fink's Creating Significant Learning Experiences' Three Column Table and Wiggins and McTighe’s Understanding by Design Template. |
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When you are traveling, do you use step-by-step directions? In regards to teaching, I need to be sure that I have an efficient lesson plan with meaningful planned goals and activities. When looking at my lesson, I identified a BHAG--Big Hairy Audacious Goal. My primary lesson's BHAG is to write an expressive and detailed narrative. I have developed a Three Column table detailing the unit with Outcomes, Activities, and Assessments.
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Read more about mapping our learner's journey in my Blog Post What Drives Me. |
Learning Environment & Situational Factors
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Questions for Formulating Significant Learning Goals
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Three Column Table
Fink's A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning
Understanding by Design
Let's zoom in closer to my BHAG with Understanding by Design. Wiggins and McTighe’s (2005) UbD 1-Page Design Template creates a thorough version of desired results, assessment evidence, and then learning activities.
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Three Column Table vs. UbD Template There are so many ways to get to our destination: significant learning environments. Fink's Three Column Table and Understanding by Design Template both use backwards design to plan for the learner's goals. I hope to use both designs in creating my Innovation Plan: Blended Learning in Waves. I have learned to primarily define my learner's goals before thinking up any "cute" activities. I think it is beneficial to use UbD to define Assessment evidence before planning learning experiences. Backwards design models definitely help me create a significant learning environment with the learner outcomes in mind. If I really want to utilize blended learning in my learning environment, it is important to know what will be the desired goals. It seems that the Three Column Table is more of a quick view and UbD Template is more detailed. Both plans will be help me in creating significant learning environments where blended learning can thrive and truly be successful.
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Read more about 20th Century Education vs. 21st Century Education in my Blog Post Filling the Vessel vs. Kindling the Fire. |
Resources:
21stEducator. (2009, April 2). 21st century education vs. 20th century education [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiD1UqLPrOg
Fink, L. D., PhD. (n.d.). A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning. Pdf.
Lichtman, G. [TEDx Talks]. (2013, March 20). What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZEZTyxSl3g
macfound. (2010, December 1). Rethinking learning: The 21st century learner [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0xa98cy-Rw
Wiggins, G. P., & McTighe, J. (2008). Understanding by design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
21stEducator. (2009, April 2). 21st century education vs. 20th century education [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiD1UqLPrOg
Fink, L. D., PhD. (n.d.). A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning. Pdf.
Lichtman, G. [TEDx Talks]. (2013, March 20). What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZEZTyxSl3g
macfound. (2010, December 1). Rethinking learning: The 21st century learner [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0xa98cy-Rw
Wiggins, G. P., & McTighe, J. (2008). Understanding by design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.