Backward Design
Backward design is an approach to designing learning experiences that starts with the desired observable outcome and works backward to the activities, content, and sequencing that will produce it. Extended by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe in *Understanding by Design*, it reverses the default instinct to start from content. It is the foundational design move of the PLAN phase in workshop design.
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- Observable Outcomes
- An observable outcome is a desired learning result expressed as a behavior, artifact, decision, or performance that a third party could witness and evaluate from the outside. Observable outcomes use…
- Focused Outcomes
- Focused outcomes is the active-learning principle that every design decision — segment, activity, prompt, debrief — is traceable back to a specific outcome the session is supposed to produce. It…
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- From Learner-Centered to Transformation-Centered
Transformation-centered design is a workshop design philosophy that measures success by observable behavior change, not by information delivered or satisfaction scored.