Session+Two

**Session 2 - UBD 101, Multiple Intelligences, & Differentiation (1.0 Hours)**

**Essential Questions** How can educators create meaningful lessons for all students to ensure they acquire understandings & truths, develop problem solving skills, and become active participants in the local and global community?

**Enduring Understandings** Careful planning and design is essential to creating lessons that address the variety of learning styles and abilities of our students.

**Overview** Staff will review the following resources and discuss them. It is assumed that these topics are not new to most of the staff and are intended to be a review of some commonly accepted practices in education. Reflect back on this session as you proceed with Session Four later in the day.

**Understanding by Design** Read the Article "UbD in a Nutshell" to gain a basic understanding of the Understanding by Design model of designing lessons by Grant Wiggins.

**Multiple Intelligences** Take the Multiple Intelligences Quiz by edutopia Read the interviews by some well known artists and scientists related to their multiple intelligences by edutopia Review a few examples of how teachers are implementing multiple intelligences in the classroomby edutopia Watch the video media type="custom" key="11704234" PBS - Overview of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences

**Bloom's Taxonomy** Visit this Thinkfinity link to review some resources related to Bloom's taxonomy including an updated wheel of skills

**Differentiation** View this wiki created by Angela Cunningham Differentiated Instruction - by Staff Development for Educators