Transfer is the goal of the Understanding by Design process. To say that there was transfer is to mean that students can transfer knowledge to formats, applications, and situations which are different from where it was learned. Otherwise, what you have is not understanding, but rote memorization.

The process would look like:
1.) I do, you watch.
2.) I do, you help.
3.) You do, I help.
4.) You do, I watch.

i think this is the GRR -- Gradual Release of Responsibilty .. it was tackled during our UBD IN-SET in FAPE last April ..

GRR was also known as scaffolding before.

i'm starting to get hang of the ubd, although it's just the first week of school .. hopefully the GRR works on my students! ) or else ill go "GRR!" literally! hehe!

sir admin if you don't mind, can you also post the other three factors which constitutes the UBD (Deepen, Explore, and Firm-up) with such clarity as your post with regards to Transfer.

@jinka: Deepen, Explore and Firm-Up is not technically a Wiggins-McTighe work. If I am not mistaken, FAPE presented that, and it is absorbed by DepEd.

still sir, if you don't mind, kindly enlighten us about that remaining three. thanks in advance.

Isn't transfer supposed to work on the Big Ideas, as in "I can relate what I understood from English Literature to my studies in History."

Is this correct?