Week 2 Assignment 3:

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Understanding Backward Design:
As an educator one must prepare a goal-oriented curriculum to follow. Grant Wiggins explains the way a teacher should do so, using backward design. Backward design is a method used to design educational curriculum by setting goals before anything else. It challenges traditional curriculum planning which puts the content before the goals. Backward design enables an educator to remain focused on what she wishes to accomplish. It teaches to “keep the eyes on the prize”, on the end goal. By using Backward design to create one’s curriculum, one will automatically have to keep long term goals in mind, get the right blend of content and performance. This method helps an educator achieve the ultimate result which we all hope for; to be the most effective and professional educator as possible.

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