Designing Learning with Understanding by Design (UbD)
Use backward design to align learning outcomes, assessment evidence, and instructional experiences around meaningful student understanding.
Overview
Effective planning begins with clarity about what students should understand and be able to do. This workshop introduces the principles of Understanding by Design (UbD) and backward design.
Participants explore how to begin with desired learning results, determine appropriate evidence of learning, and then plan learning experiences that intentionally lead students toward those outcomes.
Why Choose This Workshop?
When objectives, assessment, and classroom activities are planned separately, learning can lose focus. UbD provides educators with a structured approach to designing coherent learning experiences in which every element serves a clear purpose and contributes to deeper student understanding.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Explain the principles of backward design.
- Identify desired learning results before planning instruction.
- Develop meaningful essential questions and enduring understandings.
- Determine appropriate evidence of student learning.
- Align learning outcomes, assessment, and instructional activities.
- Begin developing a learning unit using the UbD framework.
Target Audience
Teachers, Curriculum Coordinators, Heads of Department, Academic Leaders