The document discusses key questions educators should consider when designing instruction to help students understand concepts. It suggests asking how instruction will: 1) help students know where they are going and why; 2) hook students' interest at the beginning of lessons; and 3) provide experiences for students to apply their understanding and ensure all learners succeed. It also recommends having students reflect on and revise their work, express their understanding through self-evaluation, and tailoring instruction to individual students' strengths and needs.
The document discusses key questions educators should consider when designing instruction to help students understand concepts. It suggests asking how instruction will: 1) help students know where they are going and why; 2) hook students' interest at the beginning of lessons; and 3) provide experiences for students to apply their understanding and ensure all learners succeed. It also recommends having students reflect on and revise their work, express their understanding through self-evaluation, and tailoring instruction to individual students' strengths and needs.
The document discusses key questions educators should consider when designing instruction to help students understand concepts. It suggests asking how instruction will: 1) help students know where they are going and why; 2) hook students' interest at the beginning of lessons; and 3) provide experiences for students to apply their understanding and ensure all learners succeed. It also recommends having students reflect on and revise their work, express their understanding through self-evaluation, and tailoring instruction to individual students' strengths and needs.
where they are headed, why they are going W = there, and what ways they will be evaluated along the way? How will you hook and hold students’ interest and enthusiasm through thought- H = provoking experiences at the beginning of each instructional episode? What experiences will you provide to help students make their understandings real E = and equip all learners for success throughout your course or unit? How will you cause students to reflect, R = revisit, revise, and rethink? How will students express their E = understandings and engage in meaningful self-evaluation? How will you tailor (differentiate) your T = instruction to address the unique strengths and needs of every learner? How will you organize learning experiences so that students move from teacher-guided and concrete activities to O = independent applications that emphasize growing conceptual understandings as opposed to superficial coverage?
WIGGINS AND MCTIGHE, 2005. UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN