Backwards Design Unit Planner
Plan a unit using backwards design from desired outcomes through assessment evidence to...
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npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill backwards-design-unit-planner -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- GarethManning/education-agent-skills939
- Category
- Design
- Updated
- 13d ago
- License
- See repository
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Plan a unit using backwards design from desired outcomes through assessment evidence to learning activities. Use when starting a new unit or redesigning an existing one from standards.
Backwards Design Unit Planner
What This Skill Does
Generates a complete Stage 1, 2, 3 Understanding by Design unit structure from a teacher's desired outcomes: Stage 1 defines enduring understandings, essential questions, and target knowledge/skills; Stage 2 designs the assessment evidence that will demonstrate understanding (before any activities are planned); Stage 3 sequences the learning activities that build toward the assessments and outcomes. The critical insight of backwards design is that assessment is designed BEFORE instruction, not as an afterthought but as the definition of what success looks like. AI is specifically valuable here because backwards design requires holding all three stages in mind simultaneously and ensuring tight alignment between them, what is assessed must match what is intended, and what is taught must prepare students for what is assessed. Most teacher-designed units plan activities first and assessments last, which produces misalignment.
