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Core practices: Backward design of world language curriculum
Kathy Shelton
April 6, 2017

“But how do I implement all this?!”

This is the most common question I hear from teachers during professional development workshops on making the shift to a proficiency-based curriculum. It’s a fair question when looking at everything that is involved in teaching language for proficiency. …

In teacher workshops, we focus on the process of Backward Design, a framework developed by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins. Backward design means planning instruction with the end goals in mind. ...

This frameworks helps teachers implement a proficiency-based language program over a realistic timeline, based on each teacher’s current program model. When using backward design to create world language units with functional goals and objectives, the process can be broken down into three steps.

Read the full article at http://www.kentuckyteacher.org/subjects/global-competency-world-languages/2017/04/core-practices-backward-design-of-world-language-curriculum/

This article is part of a seven-part series that focuses on core practices of language instruction. Find links to other articles in the series at the beginning of the Shelton article.