Educational Innovation at UW-Madison: The "Backward Design" Framework 

Very helpful. As a newly accredited teacher, the Backwards design framework not only has developed the way I approach lesson planning but unit programming. I look forward to learning more about the implementation of the backward design and modifying teaching strategies to better accommodate the needs of my students :)

Erica, thank you for sharing your knowledge - very informative and helpful!

This is an excellent video. Thank you.

Erica is great. Always enjoy conversations with her

"backward design" turns out to be "top-down design" which is the normal, ie forward, way of designing to meet objectives in all other spheres of activity. KIAT design (ie "knickers in a twist") would be a more descriptive term for her explanation.

Excellent content

Very helpful

Where does compliance to standards fall within the three stages? Is it the third stage? I think the first stage should consist of determining what standards should apply to student learning. The second stage should be thinking about how to acessed student learning in compliance with the standards. The third stage should entail doing some type of activities that fulfills compliance to the standards or goals set. You are very knowledgeable about this subject. I am relatively new to it, and I need to familiarize myself to procedural steps of backward design for I student teach. I would very much appreciate your help in reccommending to me some resources to study for Backward Design Instruction.