Week 2 Reflection
This week was a reintroduction to the Backward Design method for creating lessons. It allowed me to take a step back and think about the process of creating all of my unit plans in those first years of teaching and reminded me that while I tweak each of those lessons, I need to keep the end result at the forefront of my thoughts. Backward Design is results-oriented and asks us to think about how students are going to learn rather than how we are going to teach a topic. I like that it puts us in their shoes because often times as teachers we think about what will be the most efficient way for us to teach a subject, but that doesn't always equate to the most effective method. Backward Design is really "quite logical when you come to understand it, but 'backward' from the perspective of much habit and tradition in our field" (Wiggins, 2005, p. 19). It is broken down into three simple stages as seen in the flowchart below. https://educationaltechnology.net/b...