Local Identifier: 1000
Date Issued: 2015-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Loucky, James
During the summer 2015 'Backwards by Design' working retreat, I explored the intricate pairing of knowledge and action as central to…
Local Identifier: 1001
Date Issued: 2014-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Fortney, James
In 2014, I attended the Backwards By Design professional development retreat as a way to enhance my writing instruction in the field of communication…
Local Identifier: 1002
Date Issued: 2014-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Riordan, Catherine
In the retreat I sought assistance as I developed a new course, a senior seminar in industrial/ organizational (I/O) psychology, a writing intensive…
Local Identifier: 1003
Date Issued: 2014-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Armstrong Soule, Cat
As a marketing instructor, it has been challenging to find effective techniques to help my students improve their written communication skills. I…
Local Identifier: 1004
Date Issued: 2013-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Dwyer, Sean
This year, I taught a course in advanced Spanish grammar, Spanish 302. This course provided me with an opportunity to build on a procedure I…
Local Identifier: 1005
Date Issued: 2012-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Keeler, Linda
Currently, KIN 321 Sociology of Sport is the only sociocultural class in the kinesiology program and perhaps, one of the only sociology courses that…
Local Identifier: 1006
Date Issued: 2013-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Goodnow, Jasmine
The Backwards by Design workshop inspired me to think deeply about how to construct meaningful assignments that would help students learn not only…
Local Identifier: 1007
Date Issued: 2015-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Fraas, Michael
In the summer of 2012, I had the privilege of attending the Backwards By Design workshop, where I was introduced to the 'threshold concept…
Local Identifier: 1008
Date Issued: 2015-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Bowe, Brian J.
Having just arrived in Washington from my longtime Michigan home a few days before, the Backwards by Design retreat was the first formal activity of…
Local Identifier: 1009
Date Issued: 2015-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Dwyer, Sean
The intended result of a series of Spanish courses is the ability to speak fluidly, if not extensively, in Spanish. The quickest way to speak quickly…
Local Identifier: 1010
Date Issued: 2015-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Schwandt, Hilary
At the Backwards by Design (BbD) retreat last fall for every topic and assignment, I focused on a class I was about to teach the coming fall that is…
Local Identifier: 1011
Date Issued: 2015-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Buddhadev, Harsh
In Fall 2015, the new 5-credit KIN 306 course was created by combining old KIN 306 and 301 classes (3-credits each). This is the first course…
Local Identifier: 1012
Date Issued: 2015-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Muniz, Marc N.
My participation in the Backwards by Design workshop last Summer inspired me to think deeply about the nature of writing experiences afforded to our…
Local Identifier: 1013
Date Issued: 2013-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Holtmeier, Matt
At the 2013 TLA retreat, the main task I set for myself was building a new course around the film and television of the Pacific Northwest. The main…
Local Identifier: 1014
Date Issued: 2013-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Saint, Michelle
I regularly teach Phil 112: Introduction to Moral Issues. This is a 100-level, 3 credit hour course that is intended to introduce students to…
Local Identifier: 1015
Date Issued: 2013-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Smith, Peter
In Fall 2013, I attended the Backwards by Design workshop sponsored by the Writing Instruction Center and led by Carmen Werder and Shevell Thibou. At…
Local Identifier: 1016
Date Issued: 2012-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Dwyer, Sean
Numerous practices and assignments discussed at the 2012 Backwards by Design Curriculum Workshop appeal to me as sources of creativity in the…
Local Identifier: 1017
Date Issued: 2012-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Luce, Kristina
As part of my participation in the Backwards by Design Retreat during summer of 2012, I chose to design the first course of the three-part series of…
Local Identifier: 1018
Date Issued: 2012-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Morgan Parmett, Helen
The course I chose to focus on for the Backwards by Design retreat and for this particular study is Communication 244: Advocacy through Media. This…
Local Identifier: 1019
Date Issued: 2012-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Saint, Michelle
In Fall 2012, I taught Phil 355: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. I used this course as an opportunity to test a new pedagogical technique. I…
Local Identifier: 1020
Date Issued: 2018-06-01
Creators/Contributors: Lending, Claire
I restructured my graduate class, MBA 541, Managerial Finance with a focus on the core concept, company value maximization. The course was structured…
Local Identifier: 1021
Date Issued: 2018-06-01
Creators/Contributors: Kerman, Monique
As a result of my participation in WWU's Backward by Design retreat in 2017, I sought to modify the written assignments of my introductory Art…
Local Identifier: 1022
Date Issued: 2018-06-01
Creators/Contributors: Cornwall, Warren
Structured peer editing of student writing provides a valuable tool for teaching writing concepts and skills. This write-up describes a detailed…
Local Identifier: 1023
Date Issued: 2018-06-01
Creators/Contributors: Wang, Claudia
Several exploratory writing assignments were developed and implemented in a 300 level nutrition class based on the Backward By Design Strategy. A…
Local Identifier: 1024
Date Issued: 2018-06-01
Creators/Contributors: Wang, Li
How to incorporate academic writing into the Advanced Chinese Class? My mini-study explores how to balance the grammatical aspect with the writing…
Local Identifier: 1025
Date Issued: 2018-06-01
Creators/Contributors: Runyan, Michelle
This study examines the ways in which a low-stakes meta, reflective, and reflexive writing assignment has the potential to help students better…
Local Identifier: 1026
Date Issued: 2018-06-01
Creators/Contributors: Daniels, Rita
The purpose of this mini-study was to redesign a Research Methods in Communication course using Backward by Design (BbD; Wiggins & McTighe, 2005…
Local Identifier: 1027
Date Issued: 2018-06-01
Creators/Contributors: Hayes, Nini
This project was about using consensus to co-create curricula and build classroom community. I worked with students to narrow their study of focus to…
Local Identifier: 1028
Date Issued: 2022-07-01
Creators/Contributors: Brauner, Sophia
In this essay, I ask how Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe) functions in planning skill-based composition classes. I inspect how the…
Local Identifier: 1029
Date Issued: 2022-07-01
Creators/Contributors: Colen, Elizabeth
Along with including the usual sections for 'what' to do and 'how' to do it, when developing an essay writing prompt, providing a…