MI - Chapter 3 - What Really Matters in Learning (Content)

This chapter tackles that never ending question of “what’s important to teach?” I had no idea that some of teaching standards were so ridiculous, such as that one about the Indus River Valley and the Huang-He of China, but if you Google it, you’ll find that a lot of teachers decided not to mess around with skipping that particular content standard. The backward-design seems to only make sense to me. I would never teach a lesson without knowing ultimately what I want my students to get from it. I can see how going about the planning backwards would be more helpful though. Those templates look eerily familiar.