TWO-WEEK PLAN

 

The two-week plan requires that you think ahead to the content you will be teaching. Planning helps draw out connections between topics, ensures that you have a sense of where the course is going, and enables you to plan ahead for resources (speakers, videos, duplicating, etc.). Student assignments can be scheduled more evenly considering students are often required to complete assignments (e.g. projects) involving significant preparation. Similarly, planning helps you think about how and when you will utilize different instructional strategies.

 

In preparing this assignment, you should have already obtained a copy of the teacher's edition of the textbooks. You should have discussed the assignment with your partnership teacher and obtained feedback from him/her. Your plan should provide you with a basis for your first two weeks of teaching for the first class duties you assume. As with any plan, however, you will likely have to make changes during the two week plan’s implementation.  This is expected and assumed.

 

TIMELINE for SUBMISSION

1.    Share your two-week plan with your partnership teacher (and me) prior to implementation by January 16th (or the Friday prior to beginning instruction).

2.    Incorporate your partnership teacher’s feedback when revising your two-week plan for final submission to the instructor by January 23rd.

3.    Final sharing of the two-week plan is due by February 6th (or the Monday after completing your first two weeks instruction).

 

                                                   FORMAT

A)   Using TaskStream, provide a one page overview for your two-week unit:

·         Include descriptions of your main pedagogical objectives and outcomes (this is where your textbook and last semester readings are important)

o   Name specific student-centered learning activities {inquiry, discovery learning, cooperative learning, etc.} and/or teacher-directed learning activities {Lecture, PowerPoint presentations, Guided discussion, etc.}. 

o   Discuss your technology integration efforts.

o   Discuss specific behavioral management techniques you hope to use.

·         Describe how you will connect this unit to the previous unit and topics that have already been taught.

·         Describe how you will connect this unit to a future unit and topics that follows. (10 points)

 

B)   Use the lesson planning strategy in TaskStream that works best for you. For example, if you are planning a laboratory day, the six-point lesson plan will need to be modified.  Please remember that an inquiry-based lesson plan has been posted for you to use.

·         All ten lesson plans are required to be entered separately into TaskStream. 

·         Be sure to list and describe any and all materials, resources, and technology you will need to implement the unit (30 points).

 

C)  Select an example of a student’s work that was found significant from the unit plan. Remember to erase and delete any evidence of the student’s name.  This work should demonstrate a high level of achievement or conversely, one that did not meet your expectations for this assignment. The work selected could be from an exceptional student either with an IEP or an IDEA.  Analyze the work including a written statement addressing the following areas as described below:

·         Why did you select this particular work?

·         Is the example selected above average, below average or average relative to the performance of other students in the class?  Explain.

·         What factors (e.g. quality of instruction, student motivation) do you see as contributing to students’ performance on this assignment?

·         What accommodations or modification to your assignment did you make?  If some, explain.  If none, why not?

·         If you were to use this assignment again, what changes will you make to the assignment or to your instruction?

(10 points)

 

D) Included in your unit plan will be the following:

·         Ten days of lesson plans

·        Include a daily reflection after teaching EACH day’s lesson.

·         A completed reference to the NETS-T competencies and/or objectives attained with the unit implementation.

·         A completed reference to the NC Secondary Science Standard Course of Study competencies and/or objectives attained with the unit implementation.

·         A completed reference to the 21st Century Teaching competencies and/or objectives attained with the unit implementation.

·         Final two-week plan shared with instructor by February 6th (or the Monday after completing your first two weeks instruction).