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The first document below is one edited for use in this graduate class. The template is based on Wiggin's UbD template 2 and is intended for unit design. This document is not required for use in the final project but is offered as alternative and/or extension to your current tools. = UNIT DESIGN PLANNER =

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= ARCS LESSON PLANNER = The ARCS Model of Motivational Design(Keller,1987) addresses the importance of motivating learners by gaining their attention and sustaining their focus throughout the lesson. Keller asserts there are four steps in the learning process: Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction (ARCS). The lesson template below is modeled on the ARCS premise. TAYLOR LESSON PLANNER Educational theorist, Calvin Taylor (1995), suggested a grouping of talents based on the needs of the world-of-work, specifying the academic talent and five other types: productive thinking, decision making, planning, forecasting, and communication. Each of these talents can function in acquiring knowledge across all subject matter areas. In the multiple talent approach, students develop their talents while growing in knowledge. Every student in the classroom can be successful in at least one of these areas, and these successes will enhance student self-concept and enable the student to achieve more. The template for lesson planning found below incorporates the five talents.

=RESEARCH BASE FOR UNIT DESIGN = The two documents below are representative of the UbD curriculum work of education experts Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins. In their well-known work, Understanding by Design, they laid out the relationship between the standards and the design process for units of instruction, demonstrating the need to read a standards document closely, "unpack" standards, and group targeted standards to optimize instruction. Most recently, they have published two separate editions of The Common Core Standards and the Understanding by Design Framework. Below find a new version of their template, "Template 2.0," updated to work with the Standards.



Grant Wiggins' most recent archived presentation slide handouts. Thoughts on targeting the standards that coincide with my suggestion to use vertical alignment to integrate language, reading, and writing standards. Visit ASCD to view the actual webinar.



= STRATEGIC INSTRUCTION ORGANIZERS =

Standard 4: Teaching context clues organizer


= WEBSITES FOR UNIT DESIGN = Scholastic's Website on Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today provides teaching resources and interactive web tours of Ellis Island.  http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/

= EXEMPLAR: UNIT DESIGN AND LESSON PLAN =

The following two documents were created by a middle school teacher as a result of the five day class. The unit design provides an overview of the unit goals while the lesson plan very specifically guides the teacher through the stages of instruction: modeling, guided practice, and independent practice.



The teacher also provided the video she references as part of the Anticipatory Set for Day 1.

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