Stage+One

Creating Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions Online Resources Glossary

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Stage 1 in UbD is about identifying learning targets for students. When targets are clearly identified, it makes teaching and learning more focused. Standards provide a source for these learning targets, as well as district and state goals and objectives.=====

When thinking about establishing learning targets look at the Enduring Understandings or Big Ideas that we want students to walk away with and remember 40 years from know. The next step is to design Essential Questions that will lead students to these Enduring Understandings and will provide a framework for assessment in Stage 2.

Once the EUs and EQs are delineated, the lesson designer needs to look at the knowledge and skills that students will need to to answer the questions and formulate the understandings. The knowledge and skills needed will be examined when planning the learning activities in Stage 3.