Understanding by Design Chapter 3

Chapter three of DI/UbD tells us about content. The biggest thing I learned from this chapter was with regards to the way the authors suggest teachers prepare content. I had heard about “planning backward” from the assignment to read chapters later on in the book, and I had intimated some rudimentary knowledge of what it was, but it was nice to see it addressed here. Essentially, it tells you to do something fairly intuitive: Plan your curriculum with the endgame in mind. Thinking about it, it seems silly to do it any other way. What are they expecting us to do, look at ways we have of assessing progress and then decide what we want to teach based on that? Regardless, it is good information to know.