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Module F. - Coggle Diagram
Module F.
Design Decisions
- What kind of a designer are you?
- What kind of content goals will you focus on?
- What is the scope of your unit?
- Is it best to start with a new unit or revise an old unit?
- What areas of need might be addressed?
- Do I have to start with a unit?
- What about beginning with a lesson?
- What's the role of my textbook in UbD unit design?
- What might be a preferred entry point for me, mindful of the template?
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Essential Questions
- Are meant to be explored, argued, and continually revisited (and reflected upon).
- Have various plausible answers. Often the answers to these questions raise new questions.
- Should spark or provoke thought and stimulate students to engage in sustained inquiry and extended thinking.
- Reflect genuine questions that real people seriously ask, either in their work or in their lives--not a "teacherly" question asked only in schools.
Knowledge Questions
- Have a specific, straightforward, unproblematic answer.
- Are asked to prompt factual recall rather than to generate a sustained inquiry.
- Are more likely to be asked by a teacher or a textbook than by a curious student or person out in the world.
- Are more rhetorical than genuine.
Enduring understandings are written in complete sentences and should begin with the phrase "The students will understand that..."