UbD Related Articles

UbD – General

• UbD White Paper
• UbD in a Nutshell
• What is Backward Design?
• The Point Of School Isn’t To Get Good At School
• What is Transfer?
• You Can Teach for Meaning
• Summary of Theory and Research for UbD
• UbD Design Standards 2.0
  

STAGE 1

• Demystifying Transfer Goals
• What is a Big Idea?
• Put Understanding First
• How to Make Your Questions Essential

STAGE 2

• Three Key Questions on Measuring Learning
• Measuring What Matters
• Did They Learn It?
• Assessing Deeper Learning
• A Blog Series on Performance Tasks
• Making Assessment Meaningful with Rubrics
• The Value of Descriptive, Multi-Level Rubrics
• How To Provide Better Feedback Through Rubrics
• Eight Essential Principles for Improving Grading

STAGE 3

• You Can Teach for Meaning
• Teaching for Understanding
• Deep Learning is Doable
• Instructional Shifts to Support Deep Learning
• Seven Practices for Effective Learning
• Performance Tasks or Projects? Complementary Approaches for Student Engagement
• 6 Ways to Capture Students Attention
• Formative Assessment Strategies to Check for Understanding
• Seven Keys to Effective Feedback

For Administrators

• How Not to Kill UbD
• Observing UbD
• Observing Lessons article
• Backward Design for Forward Action
• Examining the Teaching Life
• A Dozen Ideas for School Leaders
• Helping Teachers Understand Understanding
• Making the Most of PLCs
• UbD Review Criteria for Textbooks and Instructional Resources
• Beware the Test Prep Trap
• Yes, but… Responding to Objections to UbD

Additional Articles by Jay

• It’s Time for Curriculum Mapping 3.0 | Solution Tree Blog
• Seven Strategies for Supporting Student Learning in a Remote Environment
• Using UbD to Make the Next Generation Science Standards Come to Life
• Learning Loss: Are We Defining the Problem Correctly?
• A Policy Paper  Needed – An Assessment Overhaul
• Backward Design and Theatrical Directing
• Choosing APPS by Design
• Common Core Standards Require Nuanced, Multi-facted Analysis
• Cornerstone Tasks in Theater
• Cueing Thinking in the Classroom
• Did They Learn It?
• Differentiated Instruction and Educational Standards: Is Detente Possible?
• Do We Need an Assessment Overhaul?
• From Common Core Standards to Curriculum: Five Big Ideas
• Grading “Participation”
• How to Be An Education Troubleshooter
• LDC and UbD – Complementary Frameworks
• Meaningful Learning for All Students
• Measuring What Matters
• Moving Forward with UbD
• Performance-Based Assessment in the Classroom
• Receiving Questions about CRT?
• The Role of Cornerstone Task in the Next Generation Theater Standards
• Seven Practices for Effective Learning
• Teaching for Meaning and Understanding: A Summary of Underlying Theory and Research
• Teamwork on Assessments Creates Powerful Professional Development
• Three Lessons for Teachers from Grant Wiggins
• UbD and the Primary Years Program (PYP)
• What Happens Between Assessments

Related and Useful Articles

• What is transfer? by Grant Wiggins
• Teaching for Meaningful Learning – Edutopia
• Jennifer Gonzalez writes a cautionary article about the superficiality of “activity-oriented” units.
• Understanding by Design Meets Neuroscience
• Research on Deeper Learning as Transfer
• Research on Teaching for Deeper Learning
• How to Teach for Deep Understanding: The Missing Step by Shaun Killion
  
• Linda Darling-Hammond makes the case for expanded use of performance assessments 
• Noam Chomsky discusses the Ills of High Stakes Testing.
• The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance by by Grant Wiggins
• What’s Worth Learning in School? by David Perkins
• Toward Better Report Cards by Grant Wiggin
• Five Obstacles to Grading Reform by Tom Guskey
• Neuroscience and Video Games by Judy Willis, M.D.
• Working Inside the Black Box – A seminal article on the power of formative assessments.
• Big Ideas in Mathematics (NCSM)
• Assessment OF and FOR Learning by Rick Stiggins
• Taking Teaching To Task – Marc Chun described the qualities of authentic performance tasks and how to teach toward them.
• Conceptual understanding in mathematics by Grant Wiggins
• Transfer of Learning by Perkins and Salomon
• The Purpose of a Modern Education
• Harvard Physics professor, Dr. Erik Mazur. describes his Interactive Lecture method.
• Fostering an Ethic of Excellence – Ron Berger discusses how to discusses a culture of excellence through authentic, project-based learning.
• An excellent summary of the 16 Habits of Mind by Art Costa and Bena Kallick
• How UbD Supports Instruction for English Language Learners
• Seven Principles of Effective Learning by David Perkins
• A Research Study of UbD in Singapore
• A teacher “shadows” a student for a day.
• An action research study of classroom assessment practices in Donegal, PA School District
• Twelve tips for using the Understanding by Design® in Medical Education