E33S6 Today we take a deep dive in unit goals. Goals are the glue of an amazing unit. As such, goals should be clearly defined and decided upon before diving into a unit. Listen to find out more about essential questions, skills, standards and big ideas as unit end goals.
Show Notes
Reminder, this is the last episode before we go on winter recess. Our projected date to resume is January 18th. In the mean time, catch up on past episodes!
Below is the show's time
0:00 Intro
0:45 Episode introduction and welcome
1:48 Winter Recess reminder
2:10 Shout outs
4:30 Wins and Fails Segment
10:50 Let's get this party (errr...episode) started!
11:46 Goals as the heart of backwards planning
15:20 grade level teams making end-goal decisions
16:40 Essential questions
18:17 Examples of Essential Questions and big ideas
24:31 Skills and end goals
30:02 Standards
35:03 Big Ideas
44:24 Episode wrap up
45:54 Outro
Resources:
My grade level's Animal unit plans. You can look at the way we have crafted our essential questions: Click here to see our Animal unit.
Carrie Baughcum @HeckAwesome
Carrie's Youtube channel: click here You will want to check out Carrie's channel. She has a lot of great content on sketchnoting, but other topics as well (gaming, animation, etc.).
Carrie's website: Click here.
Understanding by Design Edition 2 by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe Click here to learn more about the book.
Contact information:
Twitter: @TamiJ123
email: lidiajimenez@msn.com
Podcast show notes & to listen online:
Links
Teachers For Effective Curriculum Facebook Group (Facebook Group)
My Blog:
Notes From A First Grade Classroom
Music Credits:
Adventures by A Himitsu @a-himitsu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music released by Argofox youtu.be/8BXNwnxaVQE Music provided by Audio Library youtu.be/MkNeIUgNPQ8
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