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Notes for Stepping stones -7

- Principle Lloyd Den Boer wanted to give 400 elementary students a


meaningful learning experience
- He wanted to improve his teachers curriculum-planning skills.
- Planning skills are choosing significant curriculum themes, enduring
understandings, and modes of knowing and designing activities for various
learning styles.
- Don Boer planned for a one week unit with an open house celebration, with
all the students and teachers.
- An Integral unit is a portion of a course or program that has a clear thematic
focus and that has internal unity, has external consistency and includes
pertinent and meaningful aspects of reality that are related to, and may even
go beyond, the main discipline focus of the unit.
- Nine steps in planning classroom units
- 1) Consider the suitability of a proposed topic.
- 2) Brainstorm ideas, possibly using a planning chart or web diagram.
- 3) Formulae your unit focus (e.g., a thematic statement, guiding questions,
and intended learning outcomes; or Egans narrative structure with binary
opposites or transcendent values). 4) Design, balance, and sequence learning
activities. Include a motivational introductory activity and culminating
summative one.
- 5) Review linkages with stages or provincial standards and curriculum guides,
adding or revising learning activities accordingly.
- 6) Plan a schedule.
- 7) Select your resources.
- 8) Plan student assessment. Throughout the unit, consider what evidence
will show that you have met your intents.
- 9) Review the effectiveness of your unit.
- 1) Consider the significance and Relevance of a topic
1. How can the topic advance understandings needed for responsible and
responsive discipleship?
2. How is the topic relevant for your students?
3. Can the topic meet students learning needs?
- 2) Brainstorm ideas
Make a web diagram
Work out your worldview for the topic
Consider which aspects of reality are part of the topic and issues
- 3) Formulate your unit focus
Thematic statement - describes the overall approach that will frame your
units teaching and learning. It describes your overall goals. In particular, the
statement includes
The basic values, dispositions and commitments that you want to foster
The enduring understandings, major concepts and key skills that you want
students to acquire
Guiding Questions
Intended learning Outcomes (ILOS)
- 8) Plan Student Assessment
Make assessment of student learning and integral part of your unit design
Emphasize formative assessment feedback
As much as possible, align learning outcomes, learning activities, student
products, and assessment strategies.
Use varied assessment strategies
Use state standardized tests as only one of a board array of assessment
strategies
Remember that not all intended learning outcomes can be assessed
immediately. Also, learning activities may have outcomes that are
unintended.
- To adapt a unit from other source(s), first determine your won focus and
intents, and only then, use and adjust ideas form the source(s) that are
available.

Reflection

When I was freshman last year, I had a hard to get the idea of Christ-centered
unit planning. Back in Myanmar, I was never taught to Christian Education
curriculum, especially Christ-centered lesson. This is one of the reasons behind why
I couldnt understand Christ-centered education. And when professors said about
Christ-centered lesson, I could only think of a lesson with opening prayer, devotion
and closing songs or prayer. But when I read this chapter 7, it helped me a lot to
understand the definition of Christ-centered unit planning. And I like the fact that
this chapter provides 9 steps to planning a unit. Moreover, it is a good guideline
which is easy to follow for those who have never planned unit plan before. In
conclusion, I believe this reading will help student teachers as well as Id get help a
lot from it.

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