This post goes through designing a unit in English. Rather than quoting from it and paraphrasing it was better to re log the post in its entirety. This is a comprehensive guide to planning.
‘Instructional sequences have the capacity to make students smart or not.’
Siegfried Engelmann
In teaching it seems the focus is often on what makes an outstanding lesson. I think we need to spend much more time thinking about what makes an excellent unit.
In this blogpost I want to explain how we might go about designing a unit of learning in English. What if we coherently sequenced knowledge for cultural capital and enduring memory? Much depends on the curriculum sequence, but I just want to focus on unit design for now.
This approach is a little bit like going through Lewis Caroll’s looking glass: once you go through, it’s hard to imagine going back. Such is the analogy used by David Didau to describe the shift from unit planning that starts from overarching skills, to unit planning that starts from underpinning knowledge.
Why would we design units…
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