TLC: Backward Design - How to Structure Your Lesson Plan, Course Unit, and Syllabus with the End in Mind

Presented by Jayme Dyer, Instructor, Biology

What do you do when you design a new lesson plan? How do you decide what to include in your syllabus? This session focuses on a process known as backward design: start by defining your learning objectives, then design teaching activities to help students learn the objectives, and finally design your assessments to test student mastery of the learning objectives. Bonus: share the learning objectives with your students as a study guide! Following backward design principles helps ensure that your teaching material and assessments are appropriately targeted for the skills and content you want your students to learn.