1) You love giving students chances to demonstrate progress and mastery. You use labs, hands-on projects, presentations, and collaborative group notes. You're required to give a final exam. Which of the following decisions best reflects BACKWARD DESIGN? a) Make it multiple choice. It's quick to grade and questions can be used from year to year. b) You find ways of integrating multiple choice questions into your class routines OR reimagine your exam as an authentic project. 2) There are new CDC recommendations that state we can't collect student work. The next unit was going to include an essay as the final assessment. Which of the following decisions best reflects BACKWARD DESIGN? a) You decide students can demonstrate mastery through other means, so you allow for videos and other methods of analysis. One rubric makes a quick job of grading and feedback. The essay can happen another time. b) You collect essays electronically. This is harder for you to grade and annotate with meaningful feedback, but you'll just have to deal. You've done this essay for years and they have to get through it. 3) Due to an unexpected quarantine, students lost several days of instruction. There is a test scheduled for next week that cannot be moved. Which of the following best reflects BACKWARD DESIGN? a) Students must make up all missed work by the day of the test so that their work load is the same as students who were not quarantined. b) You pick and choose the makeup work that will be most valuable to their practice and application. Students attend Study Period so you can teach them the more complex concepts and monitor their growth leading up to the test.

Teaching and Learning at TPS

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