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Understanding by Design (Advanced)
Ensuring Instructional Relevance, Rigor and Results

How does Understanding by Design ensure relevance, rigor and results for students and teachers alike? This highly-interactive, engaging workshop will deepen your understanding of the backward design model. You will call on your prior knowledge and experience with UbD to inquire more deeply about:

• Unwrapping state standards for Stage 1 – defining desired results for student learning
• Analyzing and applying the six facets of understanding to increase the relevance and rigor of instruction
• Using GRASPS, a powerful formula for developing performance assessments
• Constructing and aligning criteria-based rubrics to accurately evaluate performance-related work and assessments
• Focusing on improving results from students and teachers alike

You will leave this workshop with advanced knowledge, skills and understandings of UbD as well as a UbD product for use in your professional setting. Prior knowledge and experience with UbD is a prerequisite for this advanced training.