When it comes to our classes design, we, as teachers, tend to focus on how to get the class through without sometimes thinking about all the different needs, learning styles and complications our students may have in the same class we are teaching. To plan a lesson may be more complicated than we think the process is. Therefore, all the aspects mentioned before must be considered. Backward design tells us how to make a change in the starting point when we plan our curriculum paying specific attention to the aspects mentioned before.
Following the reading and thinking about my experience as a teacher, I could not help but wonder, Are we really doing this? I mean, Do we take the necessary time to do this? And Do we follow and care about students’ needs and learning styles?
If I analyse the Backward Design and compare it to my experience as a University Teacher, I realize there is a big distance from what it is and what I do in my classes. It is really my interest to focus on the need of the change in our own minds from contents to results.
