Curricular Unit or Professional Development Plan

Goals:

A Curricular or Professional Development Unit of Study - This individual assignment may be tailored to the participants’ respective areas and teacher or supervisor certification levels. For instance, a participant from a bilingual program may create a unit tailored for an elementary bilingual classroom, using dual language books from Oaxaca and/or theming it around Oaxaca art or the Day of the Dead celebration. The participant must use the knowledge acquired about Oaxaca in the unit and knowledge concerning teaching and learning diverse, multiple languages and literacies. The unit must cover three to four weeks of instruction, including relevant standards, learning objectives, essential questions, detailed lesson plans, text sets, and assessments.

Choose a topic related to Oaxaca or Mexico.

The unit design is flexible. You could create a novel study or unit of inquiry.  You do not need to write full lesson plans. 

It's not due until September 1, 2024.

You can modify or follow any template that you want. 

This can be a group project.

The Fulbright Organization wants you to share these units in at least two ways or places. 

Unit Overview: What is this unit about?

Essential Questions: List the overarching questions that guide this unit of study. What big ideas about the world, language, and literacy are the students exploring in this unit??

Objectives: List 8 to 12 objectives the students will accomplish in this unit. If it is listed here in the overview, it must be listed again in at least one lesson plan. It must also be assessed. Use this format to write objectives:

            The student will...

Do not use the verb, understand or know, in the objectives. Use strong, observable verbs such as write, discuss, create, perform, design, read, calculate, use, speak, draw, etc.  The objectives must describe what the student will do; they must be observable and have conditions and criteria.

Standards: The unit should address 8 to 12 standards. These can be a combination of any state standards from any content area.

Materials: List texts, websites, technology, and other materials needed for students to complete the unit.

Calendar - A brief, one-sentence to two-sentence summary of what will be done each day of the unit.

Informal Assessments—Include informal diagnostic assessments throughout the unit, such as checklists, observations, feedback on student classwork, exit slips, quickwrites, etc.

Formal Assessments - You should have at least one formal assessment for the unit. This could be a performance assessment or a portfolio. Please don't create an exam or test. Design a rubric that addresses all of the standards in the unit.