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Rethinking Lesson Planning Using Backward Design (all)
Enriching and improving the daily classroom curriculum may be accomplished by rethinking how instruction is developed. The use of Backward Design allows teachers to begin with the “end in mind.”
By examining the desired results first (goals), then determining acceptable evidence (informal and formal assessment), and finally planning appropriate learning experiences and instruction to meet those goals,teachers can effectively plan and deliver instruction. In this online course teachers will use the Backward Design process to plan an instructional unit, and then share it on the SuccessLink website.
SuccessLink’s Great Teaching Ideas Program offers teachers the opportunity to share their developed units with other educators. The SuccessLink database contains units written by Missouri teachers for Missouri teachers.
Goals and Products
This online course will enable participants to
- Reflect on perspectives about backward design
- Consider a rationale for using backward design
- Use deconstructed GLEs/standards
- Identify and create essential questions
- Create a unit using backward design
Format and requirements
| Session 1 | An Overview of Backward Design |
| Session 2 | Identifying Learning Objectives |
| Session 3 | Essential Questions |
| Session 4 | Summative Assessment |
| Session 5 | Instructional Activities |
| Session 6 | The Unit Plan |
| Discussion postings | Participants are expected to respond to the online discussion prompt in each of the course sessions with an original posting. Participants are also expected to respond to the postings of other course participants in each course session. Participants will be evaluated on each response. |
| Course Activities | Participants are expected to complete the required course readings and activities as posted in each of the session assignment pages. Participants are expected to post reflections about the assigned readings and the completed activities in the online course discussion. |
| Final Product | The participants will complete the provided unit plan template and then use it to submit a backward design unit online at the SuccessLink website at http://www.successlink.org/GTI/submit-a-unit.asp |
| Final course Survey | Participants are expected to complete the final course survey within one week of the end of the last course session. |
Prerequisites
This is an introductory course for teachers, curriculum specialists, professional development specialists or other school personnel. Participants are expected to have regular access to computers. In addition, participants should be proficient with using e-mail, browsing the Internet and navigating to computer files.
Content and Technology Standards
This course, will help participants meet the ISTE Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for All Teachers, especially Standards II, III and IV.
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