If you want to build community and collaborate with strength, then plan to revise or design a student learning unit with students, educators, and/or community members.Working together to design with a common purpose demands the best of us, and brings us forward with collective skill, creativity, and learning.Yet, often when a group gets together to plan, they don't have a research-based, efficient road map to follow.Hence, I offer you the unit design template below. This template is based on my learning design research over the past few years and the expectations of the new Massachusetts Educator Evaluation Rubric.
You are welcome to use this template to guide your independent or collaborative unit design processes. If you have ideas for enrichment or revision please let me know. Also please contact me with any questions you may have.
Interdisciplinary Unit Planning Template
Use this step-by-step planning template when planning a unit of study collaboratively or on your own to effectively teach children and to also meet the MA Evaluation Standards.
You can easily make a copy of this document on a Google doc and share the document with all collaborators so all can add/revise information as identified and developed. Decide on a collaborative process for revision so that individual’s work is protected. Note that it is easy to add or delete table rows if needed.
1. Unit Topic
2. List Interdisciplinary Unit Standards
3. Unit Title/Theme: Pose the title as a question:
2. MATERIALS/RESOURCES: Research, Review, and List Unit Resources.
5. 21st CENTURY/LIFE-LONG LEARNING SKILLS
6. ATTRIBUTES OF SUCCESSFUL LEARNING DESIGN
7. Unit Goals: Identify information students will review, learn, and strive for.
8. ASSESSMENT
Unit Pre-Assessment:
Formative Assessments:
Summative Assessments:
9. UNIT LESSONS
10. Unit Website: Create a unit website that hosts all unit information for the learning community. Make the website available 24-7.
11. Lesson Design: Design each lesson with detail.
12. Review: Review all unit information prior to start of unit. Be prepared to review, revise, and adapt unit as you teach it to meet students’ specific learning needs and interests.
13. Collect necessary materials and adapt room design to meet unit requirements.
14. Share the unit plans and website with the learning community: students, families, educators, leaders.
15. Execute unit roll out.
16. Use formative assessments throughout unit roll-out to assess unit movement and adaptations.
17. At end of the unit give the summative assessment.
18. Reflect on unit’s merits, and make suggestions for future unit execution.
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