Consider attending this event as it ties in beautifully with our wellness mission. Register for this event.
We are excited to launch an online Warrior Corner School Store option for you! As the district launched a new brand for both the school district and the high school/spirit, we want you to be able to sport the newest gear. There are many options for men, women, youth, spirit, and accessories. New items added - perfect for gift-giving!
Click here to access our online store: https://waunakeeholidayapparel23.itemorder.com/shop/home/
All items can be shipped directly to your home (shipping rates apply) or picked up at Trending Now Promotions (1120 Uniek Drive, Waunakee) at no extra cost to you. The deadline to order is Monday, December 4th, at which time all orders will be processed.
Thank you for your support of our Warrior Corner Store and the Marketing Education program by shopping locally.
Going Backward - By Design
As teachers, we often wrestle with questions like: Did we have an impact? Did our students truly learn, and did we equip our students with the skills we intended? This teaching profession is hard work, and planning and executing lessons with intention can be mind-boggling, with so many things coming at us at warp-factor speed.
To harness the power of instruction, we want to look backward to move students forward; in other words, use the backward-by-design process to plan instruction. McTighe and Wiggins designed the process with two key ideas: 1) focus on teaching and assessing for understanding and learning transfer, and 2) design curriculum “backward” from those ends. This model will help focus on learning rather than teaching when creating unit plans. We sometimes get caught up in planning by constructing a list of activities related to topics/content. Unfortunately, they might not meet the test of deepening student understanding and transfer of learning. These six indicators of understanding will help guide you in your unit design process — the capacity to explain, interpret, apply, shift perspective, empathize, and self-assess.
The first step in unit planning is for your PLT to review your unit assessment carefully. Look at each assessed item and discuss strategic moves to help students learn and master essential skills and concepts. McTighe and Wiggins state, “Ultimately, teaching should equip learners to be able to use or transfer their learning (i.e., meaningful performance with content). This is the result we always want to keep in mind.”
You might consider discussing the following questions during the backward-by-design process in your PLT:
How will we know if students have achieved the desired results?
What will we accept as evidence of student understanding and their ability to use (transfer) their learning in new situations?
How will we evaluate student performance in fair and consistent ways?
This will be a multi-week topic. Next week, we will address how to determine assessment evidence. Should this capture your interest, please seek me out for templates that can be used to help use the backward-by-design process in your unit planning.
Did you take a Great Picture? We'd Love to Use it in our Yearbook!
Attention Teachers,
If you are taking pictures of students in your classroom or attending school events and have a great picture, please use this QR Code to submit them to us for review and possibly use in our yearbook! We'd greatly appreciate it! The QR code should allow up to 10 photo uploads, and you can submit multiple times.
