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Backward Design
Teachers are designers of curriculum and assessments. Teachers are required to provide
meaningful learning experiences for their students and determine students needs and interests in
order to guide their teaching and learning. They must also determine whether the goals of their
students have been achieved demonstrating understanding.
This type of curriculum designing has been described as backward because teachers traditionally
start curriculum planning with interesting activities and textbooks rather than looking at the big
result with the end goals in mind. In the backward design model, the teacher starts with the end,
the desired results, and then derives the curriculum from the evidence of learning called by the
expectations and the teaching needed to equip students to perform.
Common practice of assessing indicates that teachers think about assessment at the end of the
unit, once the teaching is completed.
Teachers determine what they would accept as evidence that students have attained the desired
understanding and proficiencies before proceeding to plan teaching and learning experiences,
enables them to remain focused on the desired results.
The backward design can be used in all kind of plans : a school year, a unit or a lesson . It contains three stages:
I. Identify desired results : Objectives ( what students have to know, understand, do)
II. Determine acceptable evidence :Assessment.(evidence of learning by students)
III. Plan learning experiences and instruction: Activities(sequence of learning- teaching)

There is a guide, UBD Template, which contains all the aspects that should be taken into account

in a plan. Teachers will use them in the design of units that focus on understanding. The three

points mentioned above, essential questions and desired understanding by students have to be

considered by teachers or designers .

On the other hand, the first and most important aspect of backward design is to become familiar

with standards for the level and curriculum area being taught . Once the standards have been

selected , teachers have to decide assessment that will measure the students` understanding.
In this way students will achieve higher levels of learning.

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