Unwrapping

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Unwrapping UnpackingStandards

• focused alignment of curriculum, assessment ,
  and instruction

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Why Backwards Planning and Unpacking the Standard?

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Why Backwards Planning and Unpacking the Standard?

• To ensure that what we teach is strictly aligned
  to the standards.
• Allowing teachers to let go of things that are
  not essential.
• Better prepare our students for exams and
  assessments.
• Ensure that our students are better prepared for
  college and/or careers.
• Allow a discussion point and basis for PLC
  groups.
• Start the groundwork for year plans, unit plans,
  and common assessment.

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Why Unpack the Standard?

• Unpacking is essential to identify the big
  ideas and core tasks contained within.
• Currently, standards are written in a format
  that teachers and students see as too many, too
  big, too small, or too vague
• Statements contained in the content standards are
  nebulous that they practically guarantee that
  different teachers will interpret them in
  different ways, thus defeating the intentions of
  the entire standards movement--clear, consistent,
  and coherent educational goals.

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Unpacking the Standards

• Unpack
  and sort into piles
• Targeted for assessment (CST/CAHSEE)
• Essential
• Nice to know

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Unwrapping the Standards

• Breaking down the individual standard into its
  component parts.
• 1) Content
• What you want the student to know and do
• 2) Context
• How you want the student to use the content
• 3) Enduring Understanding
• Students will understand that
• 4) Essential Questions
• Provocative questions to guide teaching and
  learning

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Goals

• Identify the standards to be tested.
• Reduce the number of standards to be assessed per
  assessment.
• Align curriculum, assessment, and instruction.
• Make Year Plans more meaningful and usable.

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Unpacking Assessment

• Unpacking is assessment driven
• CA Blueprints
• CAHSEE-CST
• Vertical and Horizontal Articulations

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Unwrapping Instruction

• Unwrapping aids in determining instruction.
• Develop clear Understandings.
• How are students going to use the content?
• What Essential Questions will engage the student
  to achieve mastery?

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Example

• World Geography Standard
• The student will analyze the regional
  development of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, ,
  Latin America, and the Caribbean, in terms of
  physical, economic, and cultural characteristics
  and historical evolution from 1000 A.D. to the
  present day.

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Example of Unpacked Standard

• Standard Unpacked
• The geography, climate, and natural resources
  of a region influence the lifestyle, culture, and
  economy of its inhabitants.
• By unpacking the standard in this fashion, we now
  have a larger conceptual lens through which we
  can explore any geographic region over time and
  compare regions.

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Essential Questions

• As a result of unpacking the standard, meaningful
  essential questions can be rendered.
• Essential questions are open ended and designed
  for students to draw on their own experiences to
  allow for deeper understanding of the content.
• Example How does where you live, influence who
  you are?
• Example Why do you live here? What factors would
  cause you to move to another area?

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UBD and PLC

• Unpacking the standard is the first of many steps
  in setting up curriculum in UBD.
• By unpacking the standards in your PLC groups,
  you will have the benefit of having meaningful
  conversations with your colleagues about the
  standards.
• You will also be able to work more closely with
  your colleagues to ensure that you are aligning
  your lessons to the standards.
• Then as a PLC team, you can develop common
  essential questions, activities, formative
  assessments, and learning experiences to be used
  in your classes.

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UBD and DII

• As a final result, you will have the ability to
  use the DII strategies that you already are
  familiar with to improve learning.
• Students will have a more focused standard to
  work with that allows for them to have a greater
  understanding of what needs to be learned.
• UBD Curriculum DII Instruction

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References

• Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
• Understanding by Design Second Edition and
  Professional Development Workbook. 2005
• Val Verde Unified District UBD Trainings and
  Notes (Dr. John Brown)