Understanding by Design
I, and many others, spent this afternoon and all of Monday working with Jay McTighe. Our school is adopting Understanding by Design as our main framework for unit planning. I enjoyed the workshop sessions but I was frustrated by the lack of technology tools available to me as I worked. When planning, we used large paper copies of the UbD templates. It would have made much more sense to have electronic templates. Also, we don’t have our school’s standards and benchmarks available electronically—yet. My last school used Rubicon Atlas and it was so much more efficient to choose relevant benchmarks from all subject disciplines via a pull down menu. We’re moving in that direction at our school but we’re not there yet. Meanwhile I need to be patient.
