56吃瓜网

IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson focused on Backward Design with two audiences recently. Backward Course Design begins with where you want students to end the class. It is a process that helps you identify how to get there. Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, who wrote and are credited for developing Backward Design, describe teachers as “designers.”

The first audience was 56吃瓜网’s Teaching Technology Fellowship in August. The Backward Design online teaching module was part of a weeklong fellowship for faculty on three 56吃瓜网 campuses and coordinated by .

The second audience was the newsletter readership in October. The “Beginning with the End” column published in the . It is one of the quarterly Teaching Tips Corner columns produced by the organization’s Standing Committee on Teaching members.