' Analyse and
assess one aspect of
programming by UBD (Understanding by design)'.
Module 9.8 (Option – The Human Story)
If there is one thing that I have learnt this week in our
riveting biology class, it has been that teaching is not in the slightest way easy. Everything from mapping grids, to assessment
criteria and matching up dot points to assessment outcomes takes time and
requires a great deal of concentration.
The use of UBD allows us as teachers to actually have an
idea of what we are doing and where we are going with it. The use of UBD is designed as being backwards
design and long term results. Therefore
within Module 9.8 we can start the topic to aim to answer the following focus
question,
How did humans come to be, and how do we compare to other
organisms?
This focus questions gives students an understanding of what
to expect within the module but also to gather a grasp of what can be proposed
later on down the track. It also ties in
well with the entire module and each individual focus dot point. The idea of this will allow students to process
their knowledge on the module by referring back to the original focus
questions.
From this we can design by working backwards and create
assessments, practicals and lessons which will benefit the students by giving
them something to work from.
