Begin with the End in Mind

TEACHING revolutionary Begin with the End in Mind Bryan Hearn, High School Dean of Curriculum and Instruction Andrew Hodges, Middle School Dean of Curriculum and Instruction

Objectives • Revolutionary Teachers WBAT describe the importance of beginning with the end in mind • RTWBAT understand how to use foundational tools. revolutionary TEACHING

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“It always seems impossible until it is done.” Nelson Mandela revolutionary TEACHING

What is a Long Term Plan? • An LTP is a document that charts how you have logically grouped and sequenced the standards-aligned learning goals. revolutionary TEACHING

Why create an LTP? • Teach better, and teach more! • If the path the goal is not efficient, our students will be underserved. • LTPs provide and organization. revolutionary TEACHING

LTPs… Sequences Soulsville Standards logically. Groups learning goals into units. Order units and plot them on the school calendar revolutionary TEACHING

How will an LTP help me? • …purposefully prioritize actions that lead to the achievement of the ultimate goal. • …frequently ask, “Am I where I need to be?” • …become a content expert and be able to plan for student misunderstandings. • …be liberated from the troubling cycle of “day-to-day” living and planning! revolutionary TEACHING

Without an LTP, you’d look like this revolutionary TEACHING

What to teach tomorrow? revolutionary TEACHING

I forgot to make the test! revolutionary TEACHING

How do I create my LTP? revolutionary TEACHING

1. Create Units revolutionary TEACHING

2. Place SSs into Units revolutionary TEACHING

3. Check for logical connections revolutionary TEACHING

4. Logically Order Units to Calendar revolutionary TEACHING

Backwards Planning EOC/TCAP/AP/Final  Long Term Plan  Unit Exam  Unit Plan  Daily Lesson Plan  Student Achievement! revolutionary TEACHING

Why is a Unit Plan Important? • Helps you decide what to teach and how to teach it. • Keeps you on pace to reach unit/LT goals. • Creates opportunities to stimulate student interest and investment. revolutionary TEACHING

VValues Unit Plan Vision Objectives Sequencing and Scheduling

Developing a Unit Vision • At this stage in your planning process you need to answer the question, “What would it look like for my students to master the unit learning goals?” • Make sure that you can concretely describe in detail the most important things for your students to learn, and what it will look like for students to demonstrate that they have achieved the unit goals. revolutionary TEACHING

Essential Questions • Essential questions reflect the key inquiries and the understanding goals of the unit and thus serve to focus the unit and prioritize learning. • Enduring understandings is an inference that students are helped to draw or verify in the unit. revolutionary TEACHING

Essential Questions • SS: Whose story is this? Whose voices aren’t we hearing? • Math: How does what we measure influence how we measure? • ELA: What is the relationship between fiction and truth? • Science: How are structure and function related in living things? • Foreign Language: How might the context of a word help me understand words I do not know? revolutionary TEACHING

Enduring Understandings • Enduring understandings are the specific insights, inferences, or conclusions about the big idea you want your students to leave with. revolutionary TEACHING

Enduring Understandings • In a free market economy, price is a function of supply and demand. • True friendship is revealed during difficult times, not happy times. • Statistical analysis and data display often reveal patterns that may not be obvious. • Heating of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere by the sun drives connection within the atmosphere and oceans, providing winds and ocean currents. revolutionary TEACHING

Which Unit is Fitting? • Goals-Based • Thematic • Project-Based revolutionary TEACHING

Translating Standards into Objectives • Translate learning goals into measurable, most-important, made-first, and manageable lesson objectives. revolutionary TEACHING

Creating Objectives • What are the key nouns, adjectives, and verbs that describe your learning goals? • What tasks and understandings are associated with the learning goals? • What knowledge and skills will students need in order to master these goals? • Creating our Soulsville Standards basically did this for us! * revolutionary TEACHING

Exemplar revolutionary TEACHING

Bloom’s Taxonomy revolutionary TEACHING

Sequence Content and Scaffold revolutionary TEACHING

Scheduling Objectives revolutionary TEACHING

Insert text revolutionary TEACHING

Self-Assessment revolutionary TEACHING

1 MISSION 1 DREAM 1 TEAM 5 CORE VALUES revolutionary TEACHING

Begin with the End in Mind