This document outlines a template for planning quality instructional design. It includes 4 stages: 1) Desired results which identifies learning targets, essential questions, and knowledge/skills students will develop. 2) Assessment evidence which includes formative and summative assessments. 3) Learning plan which details learning activities and strategies. 4) Accommodations and differentiation for students. The document emphasizes the importance of beginning instructional planning with the end in mind by determining learning goals and appropriate assessments of student understanding.

2. “Those who Fail to Plan
…..Should Plan to Fail.”
**Alan Lakein
Planning for Learning:
Quality Instructional Design

3. Unit Title: Grade:
Subject, Topic: Time:
Stage 1 – Desired Results
Learning Target(s):
Students will understand that…
Critical Questions:
Students will know… Students will be able to…
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Formative Assesssments: Summative Assessments:
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities: High Yield Strategies:
Accommodations: Differentiation:

5. What does Quality Teaching
Document say about planning?
 Visit our Google Site to find this document: Teaching
Quality Standard (under Resources)
 Open up the PDF document
 Scan through the KSAs for “interim certification” and
highlight those KSAs (letters) that apply to “planning”
 In your table groups, compare/contrast this document
with the Draft version of the new “Professional
Practice Competencies” on planning and learn what it
says.

7.  Key Concept/Academic Vocabulary
 What is “synthesis”? What is “curriculum integration”?
What is “understanding by design”?
 Where can you find the answers?
 What do we need to “synthesize” from prior learning?
 Pre-assessment: Integrated Curriculum
 Four Fold Concept Activity (Concept Formation)
 Examining “Integrated Unit” Examples
 Assignment: Integrated Unit Plan
Week #1: Begin With the End in Mind
or “There and Back Again”
Part 2: An “Introduction” to Synthesis and Integration

8. Synthesis: What does it mean?

9. Integration and Middle School

10. ILL

11. ….more specifically in terms of
curriculum, instruction and assessment

12. ….more specifically in terms of
curriculum, instruction and assessment

13. Four Fold Concept
 What is Integration?
LIST:
10 Synonyms to
describe
integration
COMPARE:
Integration is
like __________
because _______
______________
RANK:
Top 3 Priorities
ILLUSTRATE:

15. Are we teachers?
 Determining the learning destination
 Creating questions that foster inquiry
 Designing units, backwards
 Determining assessment evidence
 Recognizing the benefits of performance criteria
or are we designers?
Architects of instruction?
Facilitators of learning?
AGENTS OF CHANGE?

16. Digital and
Technological
Fluency
Communication
Social, Cultural,
Global and
Environmental
Responsibility
Creativity and
Innovation
Critical Thinking,
Problem Solving
and Decision
Making
Collaboration
and Leadership
Lifelong Learning,
Personal
Management and
Well-Being

17. And how will we teach today’s
digital learners?

18. …Further Thinking and Doing
 Complete the “Logistics” part of your integrated unit plan
(e.g. What grade/subjects/topics will you be teaching
during practicum? Print off/save program of studies for
your designated grade/subject/topics and have with you at
all times (due next week)
 Professional Reflection: You will assigned one of five
readings (placed on our Google Site). Please read and
provide a one page reflection on how you feel this article is
relevant in terms of our conversations/key learning this
week (due next class). It is your choice as to how to get this
“Read and Response” to me but have it available to share on
Tuesday.
We Swim Together, or We Sink Together
“
JUMP IN – The water’s fine, and so is the learning