Turning Points 2000: Chapter 3

Although I am a fan of the Backward Design, I feel that all too often educators "teach to the test" or other benchmark. I think this sort of planning model definitely pushes for student mastery not just a temporary memorization by setting goals then building a way to meet them, but it could be implemented poorly which would lead to yet another teacher hemorrhaging information for the sake of meeting a benchmark. Then again, I suppose that's not the true backward design if it's being used incorrectly. I guess what I'm getting at is I like the model but I think it'd be easy for less ambitious teachers to abuse it.