Year Planning Document - Table of Contents or Outline Suggestions

Subject

Grade

Date

Overview General information for organization of the plan. Information to orient the users to the philosophy, selected goals and outcomes, developmentally related information, pedagogical designs, methodologies, strategies, assessments, major resources and rationalethat explains why the selections were made to benefit the students:

• Philosophy Statements
• Time required
• Essential Prior Knowledge and developmental concerns required for student success
• Background information
• Selection of Goals/Objectives/Concepts/Outcomes including facts, concepts, skills, and generalizations
• Description of how ideas are sequenced and activities link or thread to what students will learn (facts, concepts, skills, and generalizations) and assessment plans
• Major concerns for any major misconceptions
• References choices
• Any other information desired

Materials

• Organized list or matrices of intended learnings - goals, standards, concepts... unpacted to - Facts, concepts, skills, generalizations
• Organized list or matrices of targeted outcomes that will be used to infer students' understanding of the intended learnings
• Intended learnings threaded to opportunities to learn threaded to outcome levels to infer the depth of student understandings
• Timeline for facilitating the intended learnings that suggests the amount of time for each and a sequence for facilitating each
• Learning Activities / Lesson Plans and information that will be used as opportunities for students to learn. Each activity should be selected according to the possibility of involving students in a hands on and minds on activity that will enable them to see use the processes of inquiry of the subject(s) and create knowledge in the subject in a manner that demonstrates the power of the nature of the subject.
• Information related to the opportunities to learn. Any learning sequence outline or framework can be inserted here.
  • Actvitiy description
  • Intended learnings and how they relate to the inteded learnings and outcomes
  • Supporting information
  • Materials
  • Instructional Procedure
  • Assessment ideas
  • Any other information desired
• References for the teachers and students

Appendix for additional information

• Student Learning Log
• Work sheets - practice, enrichment...
• Additional references for teachers, special students, related topics...

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