Definition

The WHERETO frame work is a model proposed in the Understanding by Design to develop learning experiences. Each of the letters is an acronym for an important aspect of instructional design.

Why?

It's an easy-to-use template for creating instructional design. It prompts the instructional designer to answer the major instructional design questions.

How to?

Do

Consider the following questions

• W = How will you help your students to know where they are headed, why they are going there, and what ways they will be evaluated along the way?

• H = How will you hook and engage students' interest and enthusiasm through thought-provoking experiences at the beginning of each instructional episode?

• E = What experiences will you provide to help students make their understandings real and to equip all learners for success throughout your unit or course?

• R = How will you cause students to reflect, revisit, revise and rethink?

• E = How will students express their understandings and engage in meaningful self-evaluation?

• T = How will you tailor your instruction to address the unique strengths and needs of every learner?

• O = How will you organize learning experiences so that students move from teacher-guided and concrete activities to independent applications that emphasize growing conceptual understandings (transfer)?