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Significant Learning Plan: Welcome
Significant Learning Plan
Significant Learning Plan: Text
Every week teachers need to have lesson plans for the next week. Our district provides us with a calendar that we need to follow so that we have the big picture of what we have to teach in a certain number of weeks. I belong to a Learning Targets school so my team and I plan the learning targets for every day during those weeks ahead of time so that we make sure that all the TEKS that the district has assigned are covered and make sure that the students learned what was expected. What I have to do individually is to plan my activities to achieve those daily goals.
Last week, we used a Learning Outcomes 3 Column Table to build our plans for something that we want to implement in our Innovation Plan. This week we learned about the UbD. When I started reading the book, I was very confused and frustrated. Later, when I started applying what I have learned on my own plan, I was more confident and I liked how the process went from the end to the beginning. The UbD helped me have a more clear view of how I want to implement this idea. This is my UbD for some 2nd grade Texas Standards and I hope that it is going to be engaging and fun while learning with real world problems:
Significant Learning Plan: Welcome
The perfect situation would be to have the time to plan with both systems, but the reality is another. I like how the 3 Columns Table gives you the big idea of what you want to accomplish, and I like and don’t like at the same time how with the UbD you need to think ahead of every single step to get to your goals. I know both systems need to be flexible because education needs to adapt to what is needed every day, but I like how both are based on a backward design where we start with the desired results or goals, then we move to plan what your evidence of learning is going to look like, and based on what you already have, you make your learning plan. The big difference for me between the two strategies is how granulated and specific the UbD is. I know for sure that I want a system that doesn’t force me to include quizzes and tests because with my Innovation Plan that is what I want to avoid at all costs, but merging both looks like a great deal to achieve fantastic lessons for your students.
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References:
Wiggins, G. P., McTighe, J. (2005) Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition. [Kindle version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
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