Understanding By Design

Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

UbD is a methodology involving the exploration of essential questions. Essential Questions form the underpinning of excellent educational planning. The goal of UbD is to create a learning environment where students can transfer their knowledge from the classroom into the real world. Transfer often involves questions that are interdisciplinary as well as highly relevant to the student's world. Within this model is a framework for developing authentic assessment tasks. Using the GRASPS frame work we can see how UbD and Service Learning are synergistic models.

Comparing GRASPS with Service Learning PowerPoint