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The Teaching for Understanding Framework

The CCDT helps you create unit designs using the TfU Framework. The framework helps you conceptualize in clear and precise terms what you and your students hope to achieve during the course of a unit.

Use the diagram below to explore the framework and when you are ready to design a unit select "Start New Design" from the menu on the left.


What are the big ideas that you want
your students to focus on this year?

Throughlines

What will students learn about?
Why is this worth learning?

Generative Topics

How do new technologies enhance
Teaching for Understanding?

New Technologies

What will students come to
understand during this unit?

Understanding Goals

What will students do to build and
demonstrate their understanding?

Performances of Understanding
 
How will you and students
know what they understand?

Ongoing Assessment

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