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What is UBD?

PLANNING
Briefly, it's a simple yet very brilliantly clever way of planning, where you at the START, you design in the understandings or "big ideas" that you want your students to have by the end of the unit. So simple, yet so meaningful for both you and your students: authentic learning!

ASSESSMENT
And assessment is therefore so elegantly simple: your students are assessed by how well they achieved the 'Understandings' that you designed in at the beginning!

BABY AND THE BATHWATER?
And no, you don't have to throw away your old units and start all over again; this backward-design process means that once you've decided on the Understandings (also known as Big Ideas, or Essential Questions), then you add in skills and lesson content. UBD has taken the USA by storm, and is now being adopted with enthusiasm by schools and teachers around the world.

INQUIRY LEARNING? KEY COMPETENCIES?
Interested in the Key Competencies and in authentic learning? Check it out for yourself!

VIDEOS for WHOLE STAFF PD?
Interested in the Key Competencies and in authentic learning? Check it out for yourself!

Understanding By Design


By highly-acclaimed authors,Carol A. Tomlinson and Sally M. Reis. Drawing many comparisons and contrasts between gifted and general education best practices, the articles in this volume hi ...READ MORE...

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Stretch your students' thinking about important issues - like refugees, or prejudice...Take popular children's novels that incorporate timeless themes and use them as Blooms-based activitie ...READ MORE...

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Stretch your students' thinking about important issues - like refugees, or prejudice...Take popular children's novels that incorporate timeless themes and use them as Blooms-based activitie ...READ MORE...

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Want to get teachers and students asking thoughtful and rich questions?
LAMINATED set of Question Starters ready to go!
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Forty colourful A4 post ...READ MORE...

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Stretch your students' thinking about important issues - like refugees, or prejudice...Take popular children's novels that incorporate timeless themes and use them as Blooms-based activitie ...READ MORE...

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A brilliant UBD unit integrating the Key Competencies, higher level thinking, and Inquiry learning, all in one package. INCLUDES the DVD documentary from The National Geographic,"Guns, Germ ...READ MORE...

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Understanding By Design
(3 video tapes)

Give educators and audiences an overview of the UBD programme and take teachers STEP-BY-STEP through the 3-s ...READ MORE...


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Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook extends the ideas presented in Understanding by Design (Ubd) by focusing on professional development and the practical matters of ...READ MORE...

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Differentiating Instruction
(2 video Tapes + Facilitator's Guide- binder) by Carol A. Tomlinson

Differentiation gets us away from ...READ MORE...


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