This assignment is for a Curriculum and Instruction course.
Please use the topic Elementary Math: Fractions or 5th Grade Science: Ecosystems (whichever is easier)
The purpose of this assignment is to synthesize and design a curricular unit.
Think about something (it can be about any subject) you are familiar with and design a curricular unit that includes the following slides in a slide deck:
- Slide 1: Title
- Slide 2: Overview of the Curricular Unit
- Answer these questions:
- How is it useful?
- How is it unique?
- How is it urgent? (How does it address a current need?)
- How is it ultra-specific, yet a part of a bigger curricular infrastructure?
- Answer these questions:
- Slide 3: Purpose of the Curricular Unit
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- Who is the unit intended for (grade, age, etc)?
- Where does it fit into the established curricula?
- What state/federal education standards does this unit align to?
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- Slide 4: Curricular Unit Learning Objectives
- Start with an action verb.
- Use the framework “Students will be able to…” (SWBAT)
- You should have at least 2.
- Slides 5-7: Strategies of Instruction (may take more than one slide)
- What are the ways you are going to present the information?
- What resources are you going to use?
- What are the activities the students will participate in?
- Individual versus collaborative
- Synchronous versus asynchronous
- Slides 8-9: How You Will Evaluate the Implementation and Instruction
- What are the student deliverables?
- What are the rubrics?
- Give examples of both the deliverables and rubrics.
- Slides 10-11: How You Will Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Curricular Unit
- How will you evaluate student success?
- How will you evaluate the success of the unit overall?
- Slides 12-13: Curricular Mapping Tables (create a table for each of the following)
- Show how the artifacts map to the unit objectives.
- Show how the deliverables map to the unit objectives.
- Slide 14: Reflection
- Talk about how the curricular design process has changed the way you understand the profession of teaching.
- Slide 15: References
- Provide APA references for all of the artifacts that will be used in the unit.
- Provide APA references for all in-text citations/quotations.
Submission Instructions:
- Create a presentation with a minimum of 15 slides.
- The presentation is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation, and misspelling.
- The slides should be formatted per current APA, excluding the title and reference slides.
- Research and incorporate a minimum of 3 current academic resources within your work. Lecture materials may be used, but do not count toward the five sources that you are to research.
