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There are many YouTube videos that Heidi Jacobs created over the past decade that wanted to be able to reference in the future.

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Website: List of professional development on this website. Keep in mind for conferences, books, etc

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How to Use Backward Design to Create Lesson Plans: 3-Step Process.

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I was first introduced to backward design through my career in educational publishing, but didn't really understand the implications of it until I began developing lessons to teach during my practicum. It's easy to plan lessons based on activities you want students to do, but this can result in losing focus on what concepts students are ultimately expected to understand.

The main idea of backward design is to plan lessons with a final goal and assessment in mind. Rather than deciding how you want to teach, you begin by deciding what you want students to know. With this in mind, you can better plan your lessons and units to help students achieve a deeper understanding of important concepts and ideas.

With a focus on learning standards and high-stakes testing, most states are already employing a backward design learning model. However, it's important for teachers to understand how to use the model for planning in their own classrooms on a smaller scale, particularly if they are teaching without a curriculum.

1. Identify the desired results

The first step in backward design is identifying what students should know or be able to do as a result of a lesson. For most teachers, this simply means identifying the standard-or standards-that a lesson will be focused on. Whether your state had adopted the Common Core or an independent set of standards, it's very likely that your district has already identified what students at each grade level are expected to know.

I know many teachers who plan out their weeks and months based loosely around certain standards to ensure they're covering everything they need to throughout the school year. As a student teacher, I've been designing lessons around standards my mentor teacher has asked me to cover.

For example, when it came to teaching reading and writing, my mentor teacher asked me to focus on standards related to informational texts instead of literature. I decided to focus on standards related to an author's opinion and supporting evidence in a text, and used them as the basis of my lesson and unit plans.

2. Determine evidence of learning

Once you've determined the goal of your lesson, you need to decide what evidence will show that students are mastering that goal. What task(s) will they perform to demonstrate their understanding of a concept?

Assessments can be summative, such as a text or final writing assignment, or formative, such as active participatoin in a class discussion. The important thing is that students are given multiple opportunities to show their learning and that assessments match the learning goals decided upon at the beginning of the design process.

3. Design appropriate instruction

Now that you've decided what students will learn and what tasks they will perform to provide evidence of their learning, you can plan instruction. During this final stage, you decide what knowledge and skills students will need to achieve their learning goals, and plan how students will gain that knowledge and those skills.

What activities will students do?

What resources and materials will they use?

What instructional strategies will you employ?

Because you've already decided on an ultimate learning goal, it should be easier to develop and implement your lesson's activities. Backward design helps educators focus their planning to ensure that learning experiences are meaningful and connected in a way that helps students develop a richer understanding and achieve the desired results.
Lisandra I. Flynn spent 2012 to 2014 working toward a master's degree in elementary education while working full time as an editor. After seven years in publishing, she recently transitioned from corporate life to student teach fifth grade in an elementary school. Flynn shares her journey from the office to the classroom and offers insight and advice to those seeking their own career change.

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How to Use Backward Design to Create Lesson Plans

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I was first introduced to backward design through my career in educational publishing, but didn't really understand the implications of it until I began developing lessons to teach during my practicum. It's easy to plan lessons based on activities you want students to do, but this can result in losing focus on what concepts students are ultimately expected to understand.

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Grant Wiggins - Understanding by Design (1 of 2)

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Heidi Hayes Jacobs - Curriculum Mapping Heidi Hayes Jacobs' Vision *Teaching to the 21st century - "I often wonder if many of our students feel like they are time traveling as they walk through the school door each morning. As they cross the threshold, do they feel as if they are entering a simulation of life in the 1980s?

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Book is a great tool for teachers and administrators for all different types of schools.

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Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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About This Book

Curriculum maps are among the simplest yet most effective tools for improving teaching and learning. Because they require people to draw explicit connections between content, skills, and assessment measures, these maps help ensure that all aspects of a lesson are aligned not only with each other, but also with mandated standards and tests.

In Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping, Heidi Hayes Jacobs and her coauthors offer a wide range of perspectives on how to get the most out of the curriculum mapping process in districts and schools. In addition to detailed examples of maps from schools across the United States, the authors offer concrete advice on such critical issues as

Preparing educators to implement mapping procedures,

Using software to create unique mapping databases,

Integrating decision-making structures and staff development initiatives through mapping,

Helping school communities adjust to new curriculum review processes, and

Making mapping an integral part of literacy training.

Teachers, administrators, staff developers, and policymakers alike will find this book an essential guide to curriculum mapping and a vital resource for spearheading school improvement efforts.

See the book's table of contents and read excerpts.

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HEIDI HAYES JACOBS is president of Curriculum Designers, Inc., and director of the Center for Curriculum Mapping. She consults extensively to schools, national and international organizations, media companies, businesses, and nonprofit groups. She has served as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University's Teachers College in New York City since 1981.
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ASCD Book: Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping

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http://www.ascd.org/publications/ctq/spring2003/Curriculum-Mapping-as-Professional-Development.aspx

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by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
cross posted to Langwitches Blog

I facilitated a workshop at Miami Device this past week. Most conference sessions feel rushed with only 45-60 minutes to share, but thanks to Felix Jacomino 's the genius mind behind the conference, scheduled my 10 Tips to Get Started with Sketchnoting workshop for 2 hours! It gave us the opportunity to DO what we were talking about. Participants were able to practice sketching the content of the workshop as they were learning about sketchnoting! We walked, step by step, through building a sketch by remembering these 10 tips:

1. Remembering that you don't have to be an artist to use sketchnoting as note taking or to make your thinking visible

2. Skethnoting is about ideas, connections, thinking, about the process , visualizing and organizing your thinking

3. What can be sketchnoted? Books, TED Talks, Lectures, Articles, Brainstorming sessions, Presentations, Birthday Cards or blog posts

4. Different types of structures: linear, columns, freehand, timelines

5. Elements: connections, icons & bullets, containers, typography, people & objects

6. Listening Tips

7. Practice objects, increase your visual gallery

8. Sketchnoting for: process ideation, note taking, mindmapping, reflection

9. Tools

10. Share: Although sketchnotes are supposed to make primarily sense to you alone, sharing them via social media allows others to learn from your perspective and your visible thinking

Enjoy some of the participants' sketchnotes of the workshops (for some the first attempt) By Jeannette Kostka

Along the way participants received the assignment to practice their skills by building their visual vocabulary. What are some concepts that you are passionate about, that you would, most likely, be trying to make your thinking visible? How would you be able to represent these concepts?

Participants were encouraged to practice throughout the rest of the conference their sketchnoting, in order to be meta-cognitively aware of their own thinking process as they were taking visual notes?

Sketchnoting another session at Miami Device by Tammy Neill

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Curriculum21 - 10 Tips to Get Started with Sketchnoting

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TED Talk to reference in the future.
Want to share with department at school.

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TEDxNYED - Heidi Hayes Jacobs - 03/05/2011

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My quick guide

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Major Points of Developing a Curriculum Map

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Heidi Hayes Jacobs - What is Curriculum Mapping

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http://curriculumdecisions.com/curriculum-mapping/overview
Great resource on curriculum mapping including an approarch to project-based learning.

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It all starts with a plan. Curriculum Mapping needs to start somewhere. In order to discover the lessons and activities that best helps students understand the concepts; you need to start with the outcomes. What is it that we need our students to learn? What does the assessment look like.