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Backward Design

• How Do We Determine What and How to Teach? Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design

  Liz Galvin, UCLA

• Introduction to STARTALK Program Templates

  STARTALK'S curriculum guide. For material on backward design, see pps. 15-70.

• Teaching Foreign Languages K-12 Workshop

  Annenberg Media's Learner.org series of eight video teacher workshops; video No. 7 focuses on assessment.

• Teaching Foreign Languages K-12 Workshop: A Library of Classroom Practices

  Annenberg Media's Learner.org series of eight video teacher workshops; video No. 7 focuses on assessment.

• Backward Design Template

  [Digital] Literacy: Rethinking Education & Training in a Digital World, Portland State University. The interactive template can be used for planning curriculum applying the principles of backward design.

• What is Understanding by Design?

  Grant Wiggins, a creator of "Understanding by Design", explains the concept.