Deep Learning by Design Diane Graves Professional Development Seminar August 21, 2015 “Deep Learning is the goal of the new pedagogy.” John Hattie
Deep Learning
by Design
Diane Graves
Professional Development Seminar
August 21, 2015
“Deep Learning is the goal of the new pedagogy.” John Hattie
● will have a sense of the
new pedagogy
● will be able to plan with
the End in Mind
● will be able to create
powerful questions
● will understand the
importance of
accessing student’s
background knowledge
Learning Goals
By the end of this session, I
What differentiates backward design from other methods of
curriculum design is the emphasis on assessment as part of
the early planning: End in Mind
BACKWARD DESIGN: WHAT DO WE ASK OURSELVES?
What do we want students to know and be able to do?
How will you assess this?
What would evidence of proficient work look like?
Exemplars?
What instructional strategies will you use?
How will you involve students in this learning plan?
Where am I going?
(Learning Intentions, goals, success criteria)
How am I going?
(self –assessment)
Where to next?
(progression, new goals)
BACKWARD DESIGN: STUDENT LANGUAGE
Curriculum
• Orientation: Rethinking Curriculum & Redesigning Assessmenthttp://www.curriculum.gov.bc.ca
“Learning Targets guide learning
• They describe in language that students understand, the lesson-sized chunk of information, skills, reasoning processes that students will come to know deeply. We write learning targets from the student’s point of view and share them throughout the lesson so that students can guide their own learning.”
-Moss & Brookhart, Learning Targets: Helping Students
Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson (2012)
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Concepts
Big Ideas/
Enduring
Understandings
The Structure of Knowledge (Know) and How it Connects to the “Do”
Drake, Reid and Kolohon
(2014)
“...the new story in
education sees
knowledge
differently from the
factual subject-
based {traditional}
curriculum…” p. 30
KDB Framework:
1. KnowThe content that is mandated by the
curriculum (factual, conceptual,
procedural, metacognitive).
2. DoCross-curricular skills and
competencies. Higher Order
Thinking skills. Habits of. Mind.
3. BeCharacter Education. Personal and
social competencies, Historical
Thinker.
Finding the Know, Do, BeThe template for the K,D,B Umbrella
Know Do
BeEssential Questions
21st C Skills
Values, Attitudes, & Behaviours
Big Ideas
Enduring
Understandings
Doing Projects vs.
Teaching for
Understanding
What question is the
project answering?
What are you
making/doing vs. what
are you learning?
Fertile Questions
(Birkdale Intermediate School)
Open: Have several different or competing answers
Undermining: Make learners question their basic
assumptions
Rich: Cannot be answered without careful and in-
depth research
Connected: Relevant to the learners
Practical: Can be researched given the available
resources/student ability
★ Number 1 through 13.
★ Try this on your own. You’ll have a chance
to share later.➢ You only need enough space for a Y or a N
Essential Questions Self Pre-
Assessment
What makes a Question
Essential?
In your group, discuss:
❏ What do you noticeabout the EQs?
❏What do you noticeabout the not EQs?
❏ Brainstorm criteria forEQs.
❏Look to the 7 defining characteristics on page 3 (handout)
❏Sort and organize the criteria you generated by these 7 categories.
❏What fits?
❏What doesn’t?
❏Do you need to add or eliminate anything?
⦿“What students already
know about the content
is one of the strongest
indicators of how well
they will learn new
information relative to
the content.” Robert Marzano (p.1, 2004)
⦿At your table, share
some of the
activities/strategies
you already use to:
• Activate
Student’s
Background
Knowledge