Handout
Please download this Word Document for the session
Interactive Presentation on Goals and Understanding
Feedback Opportunities
- Padlet – click to create an anonymous “Sticky Note”
- Primary Pad – Add text under headings anonymously
- Email – use the contact form to send an anonymous message
- Hand-written note – drop it off when you leave the auditorium
- In-person – share your thoughts after the session
Feedback Points
Part 1 – the Goal
- “Continuously Optimising Student Learning”
- “Successful Learners” from the Melbourne Declaration
- Curriculum as the medium for achievement
Part 2 – “Understanding”
- Understanding and Transfer build on Knowledge and Skills
- The Rationale for Backward Design
- Frameworks that might be better than Understanding by Design?
- The Purpose of Transfer Goals (and Cornerstone Tasks)
Open Response
Drafting Transfer Goals
The Australian Curriculum
- Aims and Transfer Goals for main KLAs
- Use this Shared Google doc to begin the process
- All Subjects’ Rationale and Aims (pdf) – Review your Learning Area’s Aims (last bullet points) and rationale (as you have time for)
Resources
- Jay’s Transfer Goals and Program Missions (pdf)
- Tom’s Checklist for Understanding-focused Schools (pdf)
- Jay McTighe’s Distinguishing Understandings from Factual Knowledge