This curriculum design process is “backward” in the sense that educators develop the assessment strategies before the instructional activities. In traditional curriculum design, teaching methods ...

The following processes are complimentary approaches to course design: Backward Design (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005) and Integrated Design (Fink, 2013). These approaches focus on three foundational ...

It’s easy to switch into automatic pilot mode when it comes to planning a course. It goes something like this: (1) we look at the topic of the course we’re assigned to teach, (2) we select ...

It is a part of a high-level backwards design approach to the design of an entire curriculum. In backwards design, one starts by defining the learning goals (in this case, the program level learning ...

High school Principal Pete Steedman begins every school year by telling his staff to read an article by Grant Wiggins titled, “The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance.”… ...

Still, they say backward planning can be used to accomplish a range of goals, such as pursuing a college degree, making career choices, or planning a budget. Some teachers even use backward design ...