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S2E9: Jay McTighe on how to 'backward design' educational nirvana

Rethinking Education

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Transfer Goals - Understandings and Essential Questions

In stage one, we propose that our desired results or outcomes would start with a category that we've called transfer goals. We then specify the desired understandings appropriate to the age or grade level of the students with whom we're working. And then we develop companion essential questions, companion to the understandings that we will use to develop and deepen those understandings.

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