Advantages
According to Doug Buehl (2000), advantages of backward design include:
- Students are not as likely to become so lost in the factual detail of a unit that they miss the point of studying the original topic.
- Instruction looks toward global understandings and not just daily activities; daily lessons are constructed with a focus on what the overall "gain" from the unit is to be.
- Assessment is designed before lesson planning, so that instruction drives students toward exactly what they need to know.
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