Education Lesson Plan

Stage 1 of Backward Design is essentially an analysis of the standards we are expected to teach each year. Each standard comes with a desired result, goal, and area of focus. It is our job, then, to develop lessons that successfully deliver the standards and assess student learning of standards.

This week, you are going to revisit the standards you are expected to teach at your grade level and in your content area. Select at least five standards you will be expected to teach and unpack them. If your district uses the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), you can use the work of North Carolina's educators as they have unpacked each of the standards already. Follow the link below and click on your standards area:

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/ (it's not cheating; rather it's an efficient use of a shared resource!).

If your state does not implement CCSS, you probably already have access to a document through your state's Department of Education website with each standard and its various strands, sub-strands, and/or benchmarks. Do not reinvent the wheel; see what your state requires and has already unpacked and developed for your use! If you need assistance with knowing exactly what "unpacking" a standard entails, see this resource: Unpacking the Essential Standards:

https://www.mydigitalchalkboard.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&sciId=829

In a chart or table format, present the five standards you selected and how they have been unpacked -or how you unpacked them yourself based on your target group of learners. (You can copy directly from the resources available to you, but cite your source using the APA Style!). Add to this table, information or ideas regarding career and workforce readiness skills that you can integrate into each standard. (Use resources from this Web site, again from North Carolina - or from any other state/national organization - to help you generate ideas:
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/globaled/)

From these five standards you will eventually choose one to build a lesson plan around using Backward Design so select your standards accordingly (and consider selecting standards you have yet to teach this year so you are able to actually use the lesson plan you develop in the coming months).