Writing Activity 5

Program of Learning

You are now ready to work on your own new or existing programs of learning. Take a topic that you will be teaching and for that subject review:

• Framework document

• Achievement Standards

• Course document

• Unit Specific Goals

• Unit Content Descriptions

Using the template provided (which can be downloaded), work on some elaborations and the pedagogy you will use in the classroom with a specific cohort of students. Remember the process:

• Consider the end point/ enduring understandings required from the course – essential questions, assessment points (McTighe & Wiggins)

• Consider General Capabilities/ Cross-Curricular Priorities

• Write elaborations from unit content descriptions

• Consider the range of activities available and the nature of the class who will be studying the unit (if known – use assessment data, formative and summative, to inform decisions)

• Match teaching activities to the content descriptions/ elaborations/ student needs highlighting the link

• Consider the assessment opportunities you will provide and how you will build student capacity for these assessment opportunities

It is recommended that elaborations and programs of learning are developed within a faculty, collaboratively.

Once you have worked on a new or existing program of learning, submit your reflection.