EDPC 605, Week 3 Assignment 1, 2

Week 3 Backward Design: Stage 1

All assignments due on your blog, by midnight, Feb. 10.

1.      Candidates will familiarize themselves with the 3 stages of backward design.

2.      Candidates will describe 3 stages of backward design.

3.      Candidates will practice stage 1 design using Common Core State Standards in ELA.

Learning Task#1 Understanding Backward Design 3 Stages (Wiggins &McTighe, p.22)

·         Watch this ShowMe video to understanding the 3 stages.

Learning Task#2 Focusing on Stage 1, using Nutrition as an example (Wiggins &McTighe, p.24)

·         Watch this ShowMe video to see the nutrition example.

Learning Task#3 Now it’s your turn. Let’s use Common Core State Standards in ELA to practice our stage 1 design.

Assignment#1 Practice stage 1 design using Common Core State Standards in ELA-Reading.

Step1: Read the following standards carefully.

Step2: Use the following Backward Design Template to lay out your goals, understandings, essential questions, and learning outcomes.

Established Goals: R.I.6.3. students will be able to analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated and elaborated in a text.

Understandings: Students will understand that  how key individuals, events, or ideas are introduced and developed throughout the text.

Essential Questions: What is a key individual? What is event and what is a key individual? How an event is introduced in a text? And how its illustrated in a text?

Students will know  What is a key individual and how to illustrate the different events that are in introduced in a text?

Students will be able to Analyze and elaborate the text to completely understand the events and ideas in a text.

Established Goals: RI.6.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative and technical meaning.

Understandings: students will understand that how they can find different types of words' meanings and how they are used in a text.

Essential  Questions: What is figurative and how you can find it a text? What is connotative and how can you figure it out? How the author used technical meaning for this part of the text? what are the different strategy to identify the word meaning?

Students will know Using different methods to find the meaning of words and phrases, and learn how its illustrated in a text.

Students will be able to Use variety of strategies to determine word meaning in informational texts.

Established Goals: RI.6.6.Determine the author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

Understandings: Students will understand that how to find the author's point of view in an informational text and what is the importance of finding it.

Essential Questions: What is the author's point of view or his purpose in a text? How the author's purpose is conveyed in an informational text?

Students will know Determine the author's point of view and analyze the text to find how it is conveyed in the text.

Students will be able to Read an informational text and determine the author's purpose. Students will find evidence that explains the author's point of view.

Established Goals: RI.6.7. Integrate information presented in different media on formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well  as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

Understandings: Students will understand that There are different types of media that they can use to help understand an issue or a topic better.

Essential Questions: What are the different sources of media? And how to use them? How can using different sources of media help you to understand a topic or issue better?

Students will know How to use different sources of media to deepen their understandings. How to use different types of media such as visually or written to understand better.

Students will be able to Deepen their understanding on specific issue by using different sources of media and use the information they present.

Assignment#2  Practice stage 1 design using Common Core State Standards in ELA-Writing.

Step1: Read the following standards carefully.

Step2: Use the following Backward Design Template to lay out your goals, understandings, essential questions, and learning outcomes.

Established Goal: W.6.2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

Understandings: Students will understand that Examine different topic or a text. Write informative/explanatory texts that convey ideas. Be selective and organized for the information they using.

Essential Questions: What are the different writing strategies that I need to follow in my writing about a topic? What are the strategies of writing informative/explanatory texts that convey ideas?

Students will know How to introduce a topic of the text. And how to write informative/explanatory text. They also will learn how to be carefully selective and organized.

Students will be able to Write informative/explanatory texts that convey ideas and concepts by using relevant information that is carefully selected and organized.