- What relevant goals (eq. content standards, course or program, learning outcomes) will this design address?
- What are the big ideas?
- What specific understandings about them are desired?
- What misunderstandings are predictable?
- What provicative questions will foster inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning?
- What key knowledge and skills wil studnets acquire as a result of this unit?
- What shouild they eventually be able to do as a result of such knowlege and skills?
- Through what authentic performace tasks will students demonstrate the deisted understandings?
- By what criteria will perfgormance of understanding be judged?
- Through what other evidence (eg., quizzes, tests academic prompts, observations, homework, journals) will students demonstrate achievement of the disered results?
- How will students reflect upon and self-assess their learning?
What learning experiences and instruction will enable students to achieve the desired results? How will the design
- W = Help the students Where the unit is going and What is expected? Help the teacher know Where the students are coming from (prior knowledge, interests)?
- H = Hook all students and Hold their interest?
- E = Equip students, help them Experience the key ideas and Explore the issues?
- R = Provide opportunities to Rethink and Revise their understanding and work?
- E = Allow Students to Evaluate their work and its implications?
- T = Be Tailored (personalized) to the different need, interests, and abilities of learners?
- O = Be Organized to maximize initial and sustained engagement as well as effective learning?