Backward Design
On this page:
- Module Template
- Module Review Checklist
- Module Rubric
- Additional Resources
The Two Rivers Module Planning Template:
Purpose:
- To provide a clear and transparent curriculum that is built from the bottom up.
Outcomes:
- All instructional planning in Two Rivers uses this format.
- Modules are the building blocks of our articulated and aligned curriculum.
- All teachers will complete reflective cycles on two modules each year.
Description:
Resources for Developing Strong Modules
Driving Questions
Introduction to Driving Questions -- This is a comprehensive introduction to driving questions. It is not something you digest in one sitting, but it a clear understanding of the kinds of questions you use in design and instruction. This reading is worth the time and effort.
Crafting Questions That Drive Projects: This short article describes what a driving question is, why you would use one and gives plenty of examples.
Know Understand Do
Power Point Overview of developing KUD's
Assessment
TRSU Quality Performance Assessment Criteria
Performance Based Assessment Reviewing the Basics
Considering Evidence of Learning In Diverse Classrooms -- Chapter form McTighe and Tomlinson with explanations, processes and examples of assessment
GRASPS Design Sheets -- This is a step-by-step guide to developing a performance assessment using the GRASPS Framework developed by Wiggins and McTighe
Literacy Design Collaborative Templates -- This folder contains templates, explanations and examples of tasks designed using the LDC templates. This is a good starting point if you need support in designing aligned performance assessments.
Learning Targets
Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson: This book is an in depth exploration of the theory, writing and use of learning targets as drivers of instructional change.
Getting Started: Writing Learning Targets: This is a chapter in the book Leading Their Own Learning this is a shorter and more direct explanation of learning targets than the link above. It provides some examples and some dos and don'ts.
Unpacking Learning Targets with Students: This is a lovely low key example of a teacher using a learning target in his elementary classroom.
Formative Assessment
The Qualitative Formative Assessment Toolkit - A simple infographic with great ideas for capturing student work in progress.
Formative Assessment Activities - Straight forward list of activities.
What is Formative Assessment? - ASCD book chapter gives a clear overview of what formative assessment is and the role it plays in instruction.
Students Self-Assess Their Way to Learning
KUD's Criteria & Targets Proceedure Example 2KUD's Criteria & Targets Proceedure Example 1Example Paragraph Writing Module