Course:
Unit:
Teacher:
Essential Question(s) or Higher-Order Thinking Objective:
Unit Content/Skill Goals
Try to frame Goals in the students’ voice:
• “I can… •
“I understand…
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“I know how to…
Cross-Disciplinary Learning Strategy Goals Higher-Order Thinking Skills: Try to identify 1 goal for each of the learning strategies. Literacy Strategies:
• “I am learning how to… • “I know what the teacher
Metacognition:
is looking for during…
Lower-Order Thinking Skills:
Multi-Media,,Multi-Tiered Resources: Try to identify a wide-range of resources: different media, different reading levels, and resources that explore different sub-topics within the overall unit’s focus. The range and quality of resources will directly impact the quality of students’ investigations during the unit. It also directly impacts the extent to which students are dependent on the teacher for access to information: units with few resources tend to require the teacher to fill in lots of gaps, rather than encouraging students to do this with each other.
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Evidence of Understanding Examples of Synthesis Questions/Tasks for Exit Tickets, Quizzes, Journal Entries, and Round Robins
The Benchmark Assessment:
Try to create questions that ask students to synthesize both new content/skill learning AND the learning strategies: •
Higher-order Thinking Skills
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Literacy Strategies
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Metacognition
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Lower-order Thinking Skills
Ideas for Mini-Lessons for content/skill goals and learning strategy goals: 1.
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Daily Lessons Lesson Launch
Learning Strategy
Investigation
Synthesis
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Daily Lessons Lesson Launch
Learning Strategy
Investigation
Synthesis
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