{"id":7497,"date":"2022-08-17T20:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T00:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/?page_id=7497"},"modified":"2025-01-08T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:19:16","slug":"plan-your-course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/ofe-teaching-principles\/clear-course-design\/plan-your-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Your Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using backward design ensures the essentials of a strong course: student learning outcomes, a course outline, assignments, assessments, and learning activities.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Backward Design<\/h2>\n

Good courses are often designed from the end: by imagining what students should have learned before choosing the materials and activities that will help students achieve those learning goals. In this backward design model, as McTighe & Wiggins describe in their work Understanding by Design<\/a>, instructors define their learning goals and outcomes first, and then build out the course content, assignments, assessments, and learning activities.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/p>\n

As you begin to build your course, use these steps to define clear, measurable learning outcomes, and then structure and populate your course with appropriate activities, assignments, assessments, and content.<\/p>\n

Step 1. Write course goals that reach high and wide<\/div>
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