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= = WELCOME TO DYNAMICS OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

AT THE NEC SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012  Do you want to improve your teaching and take your next big leap professionally? Understanding By Design (UbD) has been in existence for over 10 years and is considered best practice by educators throughout the world. It is a common sense approach to linking curriculum, instruction, and assessment and helping teachers be more effective in ensuring that students truly understand content.

This course will challenge your thinking, as you develop a thematic unit applying the elements of UbD as a culminating project while exploring the theoretical and conceptual foundations of curriculum development and instructional design.

Essential Questions  • What are the differences between learning or knowing and truly understanding?  • What roles do effective teachers and their students play in the learning process?  • What are the relationships between effective assessment and effective teaching and learning?  • How can assessment be used in an ‘educative’ way to promote deeper understanding?

Course Objectives As a result of completing this course successfully, the student should be able to demonstrate increased ability to:

<span style="color: #493b3b; display: block; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular,'Hoefler Text','Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Understand how curriculum, instruction, and assessment are related and crucial to the teaching and learning process. <span style="color: #493b3b; display: block; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular,'Hoefler Text','Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #493b3b; display: block; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular,'Hoefler Text','Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #493b3b; display: block; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular,'Hoefler Text','Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"> Before Day 1:
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Appreciate the need for teachers to be not only effective in the classroom but also be articulate regarding their practice.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Explain the Six Facets of Understanding and how the facets are the theoretical underpinning for the rest of our work.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Describe the basics of Backward Design.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Understand the importance of Big Ideas in framing units.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Write and understand the importance and usefulness of Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Understand the role of standards in curriculum design.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Understand the importance of knowledge and skills and be able to differentiate between the two.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Understand what it is to think like an assessor.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Understand the role of rubrics within assessment.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Understand the role of curriculum mapping in planning for instruction.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Describe some of the new developments in the changing field of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Plan creative lessons using the WHERETO model.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Learn the basics of differentiated instruction and multiple intelligences.
 * • <span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman,Palatino,serif;"> Discover how Web 2.0 tools are changing the way we teach and learn.

It is important that you purchase this text before the course begins:

McTighe, J. & Wiggins, G. (2004). __Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook.__ It's available at the NEC Bookstore. Also, here is the syllabus for the course:

I look forward to seeing you! Also, please bring your laptop with you all four days. Thanks,

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