The Effect of Training Program for Planning According to the Backward Design Model in Development of
Planning Skill for Understanding and Attitude Towards it Among Female math Teachers
Dr. Suad Sulaiman Al-Ahmadi
Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction Department
Faculty of Social Sciences, Imam Mohammed bin Saud University
Abstract. This study aimed to determine the impact of a training program for planning according to the backward
design model in planning for the understanding and skill development attitude towards it among female math
teachers.
To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher using a form of planning according to Wiggins &
McTighe's backward design model, developed standards prepared by the researcher to verify the integrity of each
stage of the model in order to achieve understanding of female students. In addition, the researcher has designed a
measure of the attitude towards planning for understanding. The researcher used one group experimental design
in which the sample of mathematics teachers (n = 30) trained on the planning for the unit of study in accordance
with the reverse design model and measurement of performance before and after the experiment in light of the
standards that have been developed to measure the planning quality in order to achieve understanding, and also
applied a measure of the attitude towards planning for the understanding on the research sample.
After statistical analysis of the data the study found:
Planning skill for understanding has grown among experimentation sample of female math teachers, with
variation in the extent of the growth dimensions of planning to understand, where the dimension of skills growth
reached highest growth while formulating of fixed understand, which is the essential substrate to plan for the
understanding in spite of its growth, but it came in last ranked in degrees of dimensions growth in the post
application.
The study also showed that the factor of experience and the number of training courses which female
teachers obtained had a positive effect on the quality degree of planning for understanding, in addition to having a
positive attitude towards planning for understanding according to the inverse planning model.
Keywords: Backwards Design,Big Ideas ,Worth understanding, Standards, Essential Qustions, The 6 Facets of
Understanding, Stages of"Backward Design, desired results, acceptable evidence, Learning experiences&
instruction