Backward design by Wiggins and McTighe
Yesterday, during the workshop I gave on CLIL & Pluriliteracies in Spain, one of the teachers asked what backward design was.
I gave him the following example. Imagine you want your students to understand how different climate zones affect human activity. With backward design, you start with:
What is the key undersranding I want my students to understand?
Then you decide how will my students demonstrate their understanding? maybe by creating a presentation comparing how people live in two different climate zones.
Only then do you plan the actual lessons—looking at maps, analyzing case studies, discussing adaptations. Everything is built around that final goal.
💥 And you? Do you use backward design in your planning? How does it work for you?
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