This website will help you understand and apply the Understanding by Design (UbD) or Backward Design planning process to develop equitable units of math instruction. The UbD content will draw from the work done by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, digitalcommons@trinity.edu., OER Commons, other resources and from Granite State College math and methods instructors.

We will examine each of the 3 main stages of unit planning and apply these concepts to planning math instruction for K-12 students.

Overview

Understanding by Design (UbD) uses a “backwards design” procedure to align the intended student learning outcomes, to the assessment evidence, and then to the learning activities.

Watch this video:

The "Backward Design" Framework

What do you want your students to know and be able to do by the end of your course? How do you identify learning goals? Do the activities you assign actually help students meet those goals? Professor Erica Halverson in the School of Education, UW-Madison, talks about curricular redesign and how the "backward design" framework can help you think through these issues.

[UWLSSVideo]. (2012, Apr. 20). Educational Innovation at UW-Madison: The "Backward Design" Framework. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/cveylXCpUmw