Choose one of the goals that you have chosen for your unit plan. Explicitly talk about.
- How could it connect to your students specifically (reference your Context for Learning).
- How would you assess it?
- How does the goal connect to language demands? cognitive demand? standards? (one each).
One of the goals I chose for my plan is having students be able to cite their sources correctly, this connects to my students specifically because we often times have them cite their sources in their writing and I have noticed many students struggle with doing it within their paragraphs after quotes. I would be able to assess this by looking at their old writing versus new writing to see how it has changed after learning how to properly cite outside sources. This goal connects to language demands because they are learning how to correctly cite where their quotes came from showing it is not plagiarized. Connects to cognitive demand because it challenges them to learn something new and show they can accurately quote from sources they have read. Connects to standards because every student should know how to properly cite their sources, when writing students need to be able to show they can copy a quote and give credit to where it came from.
What is the most important thing you've needed to consider about unit planning?
Honestly the most important thing I've needed to consider is time and the activities I plan with what the students are learning. It's challenging to gauge time and it's hard to find enough material for the students to do while learning.
How does it connect to lesson planning?
It connects to lesson planning because planning a unit means planning the lessons in between. The lessons are what makes up the unit, and what teach the students the overall objective of the unit.
Give specific examples ... remember to link to your name below.
When planning a unit, you have to plan the individual lessons for each day. you need to be able to plan lessons that allow the students to connect to what is being taught, plan activities for each lesson, plan a unit assessment to show what they learned, mini assessments to show that they learned what they needed to in the lesson you taught, all in order to get the result you want at the end i.e. students learning what you wanted them to learn
McKenna Whitten