EDUO 9983 A Beginners Guide to Backward Design Planning
Is it time to revise or create a new unit of instruction in your curriculum? Identify relevant content standards and your school/district guidelines that apply to this unit. Tackle this work by creating a design to engage your students and deepen their ability to make meaning of learning and transfer to performance. Using the concepts of backward design, develop a unit sketch that defines your desired results, evidence of achieving goals, and instructional learning plan. This is Course 1 in the series, Curriculum Development.
Required Text: Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
EDUO 9984 Creating a Unit Plan
Select a unit plan you wish to revise. Using backward design concepts from assigned readings, refine or develop learning goals, essential questions, assessment evidence, and a learning plan which address and strengthen student understanding for meaning, transfer of learning, knowledge, and skills.
EDUO 9985 Unit Design in Action-Aligning Lesson Plans
Identify applications of the advanced design concepts described in your textbook readings. Refine your unit plan with further detail using concept elements addressing evaluative criteria, learning plan targets, essential questions, and authentic assessment. Your final activity will be to create a lesson that aligns with your refined unit.