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How will Ms. Begay know she is teaching her students everything they need to learn this year?

  • Page 1: Standards
  • Page 2: Standards-based Curriculum
  • Page 3: Curriculum
  • Page 4: Benchmarks
  • Page 5: Putting It All Together

What should Ms. Begay find out about her students before planning her curriculum units and lessons?

  • Page 6: Gather Information
  • Page 7: Understand the Learning Process
  • Page 8: Adapt Instruction

How will Ms. Begay know if her lesson plans are effective and her students are learning?

  • Page 9: Assessing Students Using Performance Measures
  • Page 10: Monitoring Student Progress
  • Page 11: Implementing the Instructional Cycle

What should Ms. Begay know about creating effective lesson plans?

  • Page 12: Curriculum Mapping
  • Page 13: Year-long Planning
  • Page 14: Curriculum Planning Guidelines
  • Page 15: Unit Plan Design
  • Page 16: Lesson Plan Design

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What should Ms. Begay know about creating effective lesson plans?

Page 13: Year-long Planning

What Is It?

Thought bubble: I have to find a balance so that we do not spend the entire year practicing correct grammar usage, and not creative and technical writing skills.Year-long planning is the overall curriculum framework (scope and sequence) for a specific academic year or period. It serves as an outline of what topics and objectives will be taught and when they will be taught.

Why Is a Year-Long Plan Important?

Year-long planning provides for continual, sequential, integrated, and cumulative learning. It helps teachers to pace their presentations of the required curriculum and to ensure that all curriculum objectives are covered.

Completing Year-Long Plans

Keep in mind the sample steps below when developing a year-long plan.

Step 1: Identify the required general curriculum goals and objectives for your particular grade or subject.
Step 2: Identify specific benchmarks and performance standards.
Step 3: Identify how student progress will be measured.
Step 4: Consider the timing of local, state, and national assessments.
Step 5: Consider the timing of related topics covered in other classes.
Step 6: Determine themes for instruction and the applicable objectives that need to be covered within each topic. This is done by applying the curriculum guidelines.
Step 7: Keeping in mind the material to be covered, decide on what sequence of instruction will best meet the needs of the students.
Step 8: Outline topics to be covered within specific time periods (semesters, weeks, etc.). Identify what part of the required curriculum is being covered with individual topics in order to ensure all of the required curriculum will be taught.

View an example of a seventh-grade mathematics year-long plan.

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