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o What essential questions will guide this unit and focus teaching and learning?
o What essential and unit questions will focus this unit?
o Develop questions that overview what will be learned from the unit. These
questions can be posed at the beginning of the unit. These answers are what
students will learn as a result of the instruction.
· What key knowledge and skills will student acquire as a result of this unit?
o Students will know…
o Students will be able to… {these are your behavioral objectives}
All goals and objectives must be integrated into lessons.
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Student work samples
Methods used for aiding student self-assessment
LESSON PLANS
Application of Unit Goals: Lesson Planning
Step 7: Developing Unit Strategies and Activities
• Learning experiences that engage students in the subject matter content of the unit
• Heart of the unit
o Motivate learning
o Introduce the unit
o Culminate the unit
o Review and reinforce the unit
• Instructional strategies
• Daily lesson plans will be used to
o Develop behavioral objectives
• Concepts, knowledge, skills, and values
o Objectives
• This should focus on the specific knowledge, skills, and values, which are
to be learned from this unit. This should be written in the perspective of
the learner and not the perspective of the teacher. (SWBAT) These
objectives are what you will assess as a result of the unit. Statements
should be specific.
• Students will be able to:
• What students will be able to do as a result of their learning
(relating to the achievement objectives) in this unit?
• All learning outcomes MUST start with a measurable stem verb such as
describe, explain, analyze, apply, argue, classify, compare, create, define,
design, discuss, illustrate, justify, list, predict, present, state, identify,
outline....
• It is NOT enough to say that students will "know" or students will
"understand". This is too broad and relates to unit goals.
o Define and explain instructional strategies, i.e. the integration of technology, use
of literature, etc.
• Format of daily lesson plans is flexible for this task
o Select the most appropriate format for teaching your content, but keep the format
consistent throughout the unit plan.
o Lessons should have the essential elements as outlined in lesson development
course tasks.
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• e.g. handouts, assessments, rubrics, writing prompts, outlines for transparencies,
etc.
• This should be included at the end of each lesson plan as an appendix. All
supplemental materials, activities, assignments, writing prompts, assessments,
tests, rubrics, worksheets, etc., must be included in the appendix.
• The unit plan should be a complete final product that anyone could take and use
in his/her mathematics classroom.
SUMMATIVE REFLECTION
Step 9: Reflective Pedagogy
Critically analyze what you have learned through this unit planning process and from this
course. Your reflection should be a typed written 2-3 page self-analysis of your pedagogical
understanding. The reflection should be the last 2-3 pages of the file that is your unit plan.
Caution: Avoid Fluff. Too often unit plans contain lots of fluff (fun activities that really don’t
teach much content). Be sure that your Instructional Unit Plan is well grounded in content and
the learning experiences are purposeful and well developed. Remember that your main goal as a
teacher is to effectively teach content by scaffolding student learning. This is the real challenge
of teaching: selecting meaningful and powerful content and instructional strategies that make
learning enjoyable and engaging.