Having been devised by Wiggins and McTighe, the design model of Backward curriculum was originated from education reform movement with achievement criteria as center. The model is as follows; prior to starting classes, teachers pick out big ideas and ...
Having been devised by Wiggins and McTighe, the design model of Backward curriculum was originated from education reform movement with achievement criteria as center. The model is as follows; prior to starting classes, teachers pick out big ideas and core questions which are bases of all the units and then, they develop tasks to perform in order to initiate learning activities. Such Backward curriculum is able to maintain consistency between educational contents-evaluation -learning activities and also able to promote students` ``understanding`` so that it gives some implications to our education field. This study started from recognition that it is difficult for the Backward curriculum to settle down on our education field only through efforts of several teachers or schools. Therefore, the researcher attended and observed a plan of history realm class of social affairs division; the researcher also looked into problems and the causes arising from application of the design model of Backward curriculum to education field; and, on the basis of this, the researcher searched field support measures. As a result, the researcher proposed such field support measures as change in curriculum suggestion method, support of curriculum consulting and training as per regional education office, execution of training and differentiated classes based on tasks to be performed, change of perception on evaluation and preparation of evaluation criteria. The researcher also pointed out that the design model of Backward curriculum should be maintained as a big frame for curriculum balance and then, suggested that measures should be prepared to utilize specialty of teachers.