Backward Design

Event Description

Backward design is a key tool for designing effective learning experiences, and it’s commonly used across many educational contexts to ensure your day-to-day teaching aligns with your goals. The approach moves from desired outcomes to assignments and activities, which makes it a powerful framework for centering the key learning you want to see in your class (as opposed to the material that needs to be “covered”). It can be applied to everything from an individual lesson to an entire course. In this workshop, you’ll learn the basics of the model and then apply it to your own teaching. You’ll write clear learning outcomes, then draft an assignment based on those goals, and finally brainstorm some activities that allow your students to practice the skills you want them to master.