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Writer's pictureMu Mei Hsueh
Dec 3, 20223 min read

How to Write a Unit Plan

Updated: Jan 9

M6 U2 Activity 2: Write a Unit Plan



Project Description

Overview A Unit Plan should serve as a teaching map that helps you know where your instruction is going. It forces you to be organized to reach the goal. It helps you be selective about what you are going to teach and how you will facilitate student learning. It helps you pace your teaching to achieve the goal and stay on track. It helps you limit distractions that can pull you off task. It provides the map for developing a coherent set of lessons that build on each other to ensure that students are learning. The Unit Plan should be developed before you begin developing lesson plans. Will you develop lessons that are goals-based, thematic, or project-based? A goals-based approach begins with the central questions, big ideas, or standards-based objectives. A thematic approach integrates standards from multiple subjects to focus on the themes of the unit. A project-based approach focuses on the end product that shows how students have learned to apply the expected knowledge and skills through a performance, presentation, or project such as building a roller coaster. Performance outcome

  • Candidates plan an objective-oriented unit that outlines summative and formative assessments, designs projects and activities with differentiation, for all the lessons within the unit.

What will you do?

  1. Continue and complete working on the Unit Plan for the unpacked standard with goals and objectives outlined. Plan the summative and formative assessments, and the sequence of lessons for the whole unit, based on the overarching goal, specific objectives, prerequisite skills, and differentiation based on reading levels.

  2. Describe the summative assessment that you will use to ensure mastery of the unit based on the students' reading levels as well as the formative assessments you will use to monitor student progress during the unit.

  3. Write descriptions of all the lessons in the unit including:

    • The lesson objective

    • Duration

    • Vocabulary and any other literacy skills

    • Description of projects and activities within each lesson

    • Differentiation for English language learners, Special Education learners, and gifted or talented students (use the profile of a group of students in the Activity Resources if you do not have a class or if you don’t have learning or cultural differences in your class)

  4. Write the next steps of what you will do after all the planned lessons are completed. This step is important because you must think of units as a continuum of a curriculum rather than isolated units of instruction.

  5. Peer review at least two other cohort members’ Unit Plan to evaluate if it all fits together, recognize strengths and areas of improvement, and suggest ideas to extend the unit.

Report requirements

  • Completed Unit Plan template with prerequisite skills, summative assessment(s), formative assessments, lesson descriptions with differentiation strategies, and next steps after completing the lessons

  • Peer review of at least two other Cohort members’ Unit Plan

Notes If you are an early childhood or elementary teacher, examine the resources related to the Science of Reading and be certain that the projects and activities within each lesson in the unit are taught in the appropriate sequence, and the assessments, projects, and activities will allow you to determine whether the student has attained mastery of the skills. Be vigilant about gaps in understanding and plan next steps to reteach or extend each lesson within the unit plan if needed. If you are a secondary teacher, examine resources in your specific content area and be certain that the projects and activities within each lesson in the unit are taught in the appropriate sequence, and the assessments, projects, and activities will allow you to determine whether the student has attained mastery of the skills. Be vigilant about gaps in understanding and plan next steps to reteach or extend each lesson within the unit plan if needed.


(The above information was cited from the TEACH-NOW Teacher Preparation Certificate Program)



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