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If you need a refresher on backward design, read Chapter 1: Surfacing Backward Design from Small Teaching Online.

The link above goes to the e-book chapter in one of our Library databases. Let us know if you have trouble logging in to read the chapter.

Use Backward Design to Develop Your Open Pedagogy Assignment

In preparation for writing instructions for your students for the open pedagogy assignment, chose one assignment you’d like to try and use the backward design worksheet to build on your post and any notes from last session’s worksheet,

We’ll be using this backward design worksheet in our next session.

Bonus

If you have time and interest, here is a podcast episode (48 minutes) interviewing the author of Small Teaching Online, Flower Darby. This is from Tea for Teaching, an excellent podcast out of SUNY Oswego.

6 Comments

  1. Yan Yang

    Attached is the Backward Design Plan for the Smarthistory assignment. The learning outcomes are taken directly from the syllabus (although I realized they are very general).

    As I go through the Backward Design Plan and refresh my memory about it, I realized that it is not how I usually design assignments for students. I usually come up with the assignment/vehicle first and then evaluate what kind of learning students would gain from the process of completing the activity.

    Backward-design-planner-adapted (Smarthistory)

  3. Adrienne Urbanski

    Listed below is the link to my Backward Design Worksheet. I have in the past used the required learning outcomes for the classes that I teach as starting points for the assignments, but keeping these in mind when designing a new assignment helps in terms of making descisions about the requirements. Having these learning outcomes in mind when explaining and presenting the assignment to the students also creates greater clarity and gives the students a better idea of how the assignments for the class build upon one another and are connected.

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PIHs8sugL8lJCHL8gviz-ZzjQH2wEbRWNRN-0AWj7Qc/edit?usp=sharing

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