Assignment
Overview
ED 3601
Unit Plan Assignment
Unit Plan
40% weighting Due: Friday, March 4
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is for student teachers to learn unit planning through engaging in the
development of a detailed plan for a unit of instruction. The intent is that you plan a unit of instruction that will be
implemented in your PS II practicum. Units can be completed individually or in groups of up to three people.
A template will be provided but you are not required to use it, though it may assist you in ensuring that you’ve met
all the requirements for this assignment. You can model your Unit Plan using the UbD framework or the PBL
framework.
Description of Unit Plan: You are free to choose any grade level and focus/theme/topic for your unit provided that the
Mathematics curriculum outcomes provide the core focus your unit is designed to teach, and your unit assessment
plan is designed to measure.
Your unit plan should include the following elements:
• an overview/rationale;
• a listing of resources and materials;
• a learning plan (unit calendar) including introductory activities, sample learning activities and instructional
strategies, and daily assessment considerations;
• full plans for the first three lessons in the unit.
Level Insufficient
Excellent Proficient Adequate Limited *
Criteria / Blank *
Insightful rationale Thoughtful rationale Unconvincing rationale
Simplistic rationale
linking unit design to a linking unit design to a linking unit design to a
linking unit design to a
Rationale comprehensive thorough superficial
basic understanding of
understanding of the understanding of the understanding of the
(Outcome 1) the theories/principles
theories/principles for theories/principles theories/principles
mathematics teaching
mathematics teaching mathematics teaching mathematics teaching
and learning.
and learning. and learning. and learning.
Unit calendar includes
Complete unit Unit calendar does not
Unit calendar includes some of the following:
calendar including include the following: No score is
most of the following: introductory activities, awarded
introductory activities, introductory activities,
introductory activities, sample learning because there
sample learning sample learning
sample learning activities and is insufficient
Unit activities and activities and
activities and instructional strategies, evidence of
Calendar instructional instructional strategies,
instructional strategies, and daily assessment student
strategies, and daily and daily assessment performance
(Outcome 4) and daily assessment considerations and
assessment considerations and based on the
considerations and shows sequencing and
considerations shows little thought requirements
shows appropriate learning trajectories
showing well thought towards sequencing of the
sequencing and that are not
out sequencing and and learning assessment
learning trajectories developmentally task.
learning trajectories trajectories
appropriate
Plans for the first three Plans for the first three Plans for the first three
Full plans for the first
lessons in the unit that lessons in the unit that lessons in the unit that
three lessons in the
Lesson incorporate most of incorporate some of incorporate few of the
unit that incorporates
Plans the following: clear the following: a clear following: a clear
a clear lesson design,
lesson design, rich lesson design, rich lesson design, rich
(Outcome 5) rich tasks for students,
tasks for students, tasks for students, tasks for students,
assessments, and
assessments and assessments and assessments and
differentiation
differentiation differentiation differentiation
