“General Methods

of Teaching”

EDU 301
Lecture # 15

Topic: ‘Unit Planning’

 Unit Planning

 A unitplan is a series of lesson plans

designed around a specific topic,
lesson, etc.
Importance of unit planning:
 “Unit planning is the most important as well as the
most time-consuming level of planning for each
teacher” (Walsh, 1992).

 Unit planning is important because we need to know the

reasons for dividing the whole thing into components.
Most of the times, teachers’ complaint for shortage of
time. This problem can be solved by making the detailed
unit plans.
 actually unit planning helps to go through whole yearly
plans.
 Unit Plans – Benefits
 ForTeachers: Help bridge gap between long-
term planning and daily lesson plans.

 For Students: The components (goals,

objective, content, activities) are tied together
in a logical coherent manner, providing
structure for the new material to be learned.
Unit Plan: Overview/Goal
 Describes the purpose of the Unit
 Starting point for unit planning process
 Conceptual organizer for the rest of the
planning process
 Communicates instructional intent to
students, teachers, and administrators.
Unit Plan: Subject/Topic:

 Unit subject is the title of the whole unit.

 E.g.in science, Human system is the unit;

its chapters would be digestive system,
circulatory system, nervous system etc.
 Unit Plan: Rationale
 Explains why the unit is important and how it
will benefit students
 Encourages teacher to be thoughtful and
reflective while planning
 Connects new content to other topics
 Helps students see importance of topic and
adds motivation
 Unit Plan: Objectives
 Deal specifically with “What do I want my students to
learn?”
 Involves translating general goals into more specific
objectives
 Desired Educational Outcomes listed in specific
terms.
 A description of a content area or skill
 A statement of what students will be able to do when
they reach the objectives
Unit Plan: Content

 Describes what students will actually be

studying
 The information students will know or
understand, or the skills they will develop
 The way information is organized
Unit Plan: Learning Activities

 Most important part of the Unit

 Elementary or Secondary Methods
 “What you teach should influence how
you teach and how your students should
learn”
Unit Plan: Evaluation
 Provides students with feedback and feedback
facilitates learning
 Provides teachers with information about
students’ learning progress
 Allows teachers to make decisions about what
to do next
Unit Plan: Evaluation Cont..

 Connected to all other parts of the unit plan

 The way you measure student learning depends
on what you want students to learn (objectives)
and the learning activities involved.
 Teachers test what they have taught.
Unit Components
Components Function

Overview/General Summarizes the general

Goal purpose of the unit

Rationale Answers the question, “Why

is this topic important?”

Objectives Describe the specific

outcomes expected
from the unit
Unit Components
Components Function

Content Identifies and organizes the

topics that are included in the unit

Learning Activities Describe the experiences that

will be used to help learners reach
the unit objectives

Evaluation Identifies ways that learning

will be measured
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