Backwards Design Refresh

What are the twin sins of instructional design (pick two)

• Coverage Based Teaching (marching through content)

• Not designing anything (letting the experience unfold)

• Designing too much (and thus not meeting curriculum expectations)

• Activity Based Teaching (unconnected experiences with no clear goal)

True or False: Backwards Design starts with a careful consideration of the desired results, so you design your unit from the performances required from learners to achieve your big goals

• True

• False

What is the planning sequence for Backwards Design?

• 1) Determine acceptable evidence

  2) Plan learning experience

  3) Identify desired results

• 1) Identify desired results

  2) Determine acceptable evidence

  3) Plan learning experience

• 1) Plan learning experience

  2) Identify desired results

  3) Determine acceptable evidence

• None of these

What is an Enduring Understanding (or EU)

• The assessment that is designed

• The way to hook student into the learning

• The sequence of lessons / experiences

• The thing you want learnings to know / understand

What is an Essential Question (EQ) (pick all that apply)

• A question on an assessment

• Big, recursive, juicy questions that promote inquiry

• A question that transcends one single subject area

• A question that has a clear right answer

• Something that you cannot easily Google

What is NOT an example of an Essential Question?

• Are monsters born or made

• What can humans do as writers that cannot be replicated by AI?

• Who gets to have their stories told?

• What is an example of a literary device used in The Book Thief?

What makes Backwards Design challenging?

• You need to do it as a grade level team

• It is time consuming and requires some subject area / learner expertise

• It is expensive

• It only really works in some subject areas