First published 1998
Current educational practices fail students across classrooms nationwide. Grant Wiggins argues that teachers must abandon their habit of planning lessons around content delivery. His backward design method starts with a simple question: what should students actually understand and accomplish? From these learning goals, educators work in reverse to build assessments and activities that guide students toward mastery. Wiggins draws on real classroom examples to show this framework in action. He demonstrates how teachers can replace the lecture-test cycle with engaging experiences that foster deep comprehension rather than memorization. The book provides educators with practical strategies to restructure their teaching around student outcomes instead of curriculum coverage.
Genres: education, non-fiction, teaching, academic
Vibes: thought-provoking
Tropes: practical-advice
Setting: United States, États-Unis
201 pages · Paperback · Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development