Backwards designing my life Last week I attended a workshop on “backwards” course design: planning courses by identifying the big ideas or main concepts that we want students to master, and then ...

Backward planning for summer writing assignments Lastly, most middle and high school students have writing assignments that they have to do.

We briefly talked about backward planning and how to know the outcome in order to plan the assessment. Students diligently reviewed the original assignments and tried to assess what they were ...

As you plan assignments, ask yourself: What are your course objectives? What do you want students to be able to learn or do by the end of the assignment/term? This will give you a chance to ...

Stage Two: Determine Acceptable Evidence The second stage of backward design has instructors consider the assessments and performance tasks students will complete in order to demonstrate evidence of ...

Understand the process of backward design Be able to write course goals and objectives Be able to evaluate if syllabi are in alignment Develop a syllabus using backward design ...