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EDUO 9983: A Beginner’s Guide to Backward Design Planning

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Course Overview

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.

Required Text:  The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.

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Instructor

Kathy Smith

B.A., M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction

Secondary Educator 25+ years; Post-Secondary Educator 10+ years.

Passionate champion of education transformation thru creative teaching and personalized learning.

Kathy strives to build a positive relationship with her students and feels privileged to be a "teacher of teachers."

When she's not teaching, Kathy enjoys reading, travelling, and above all, her four grandchildren.