Design with the End in Mind: Teaching for Understanding

Leslie Richardson, PhD Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Florida State University

Dr. Leslie Richardson joins Assistant Dean, Shenifa Taite to discuss how faculty can design their courses with a goal of deeper understanding rather than content mastery.  Dr. Richardson shares three stages of Backward Design (Understanding by Design-Wiggins & McTighe) while dealing with the “tyranny of content.”