UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN: Backwards design

UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN: Backwards design

1. STAGE 1: Identify

   • Goals, expectation, define clarities, priorities
     • Focuses on transfer of learning

2. Stage 2: Determine evidence

   • Reflect desire results: performance task and other evidences
     • Six facets of understanding: Explain, Interpret, Apply, Demonstrate perspective, Empathy, Self-knowledge

3. Stage 3: Plan experiences and instruction

   • Appropiate lessons to adress goals
     • Take into account : Transfer, Meaning Making, Aquisition