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    The chapter outlines nine steps for planning classroom units: 1) consider topic significance and relevance, 2) brainstorm ideas, 3) formulate unit focus, 4) design learning activities, 5) incorporate standards, 6) plan a schedule, 7) select resources, 8) plan assessment, and 9) review unit effectiveness. While these steps don't need to be linear, they are important to consider when planning units. The reflection notes that creating coherent, connected lesson plans and units that focus on a theme is challenging but important work for teachers. Ensuring relevance and relating lessons to a Christian worldview are especially crucial.

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    The chapter outlines nine steps for planning classroom units: 1) consider topic significance and relevance, 2) brainstorm ideas, 3) formulate unit focus, 4) design learning activities, 5) incorporate standards, 6) plan a schedule, 7) select resources, 8) plan assessment, and 9) review unit effectiveness. While these steps don't need to be linear, they are important to consider when planning units. The reflection notes that creating coherent, connected lesson plans and units that focus on a theme is challenging but important work for teachers. Ensuring relevance and relating lessons to a Christian worldview are especially crucial.

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    The chapter outlines nine steps for planning classroom units: 1) consider topic significance and relevance, 2) brainstorm ideas, 3) formulate unit focus, 4) design learning activities, 5) incorporate standards, 6) plan a schedule, 7) select resources, 8) plan assessment, and 9) review unit effectiveness. While these steps don't need to be linear, they are important to consider when planning units. The reflection notes that creating coherent, connected lesson plans and units that focus on a theme is challenging but important work for teachers. Ensuring relevance and relating lessons to a Christian worldview are especially crucial.

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    STEPPING STONES CH.

    7 REFLECTION 1

    Chapters outline:

    I. Nine Steps in Planning Classroom Units

    A. Consider the significance and relevance of a topic

    1. Determining the significance and relevance of a topic

    a. How can the topic advance understandings need for responsible and

    responsive discipleship?

    b. How is the topic relevant for your students?

    c. Can the topic meet students learning needs?

    B. Brainstorm ideas

    1. Work out your worldview for the topic

    2. Consider which aspects of reality are part of the topic and issues

    C. Formulate your unit focus

    1. Thematic Statement

    2. Guiding Questions

    3. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

    D. Design and choose learning activities

    E. Incorporate government standards

    F. Plan a schedule

    G. Select resources

    H. Plan student assessment

    1. Make assessment of student learning an integral part of your unit design

    2. Emphasize formative assessment feedback


    STEPPING STONES CH. 7 REFLECTION 2

    3. As much as possible, align learning outcomes, learning activities, student

    products, and assessment strategies

    4. Use varied assessment strategies

    5. Uses state standardized tests as only one of broad array of assessment

    strategies

    6. Remember that not all intended learning outcomes can be assessed

    immediately. Also, learning activities may have outcomes that are

    unintended

    I. Review the effectiveness of your unit

    II. Adapting Units for Your Classroom

    Reflection

    According to the book itself, planning and creating a unit plan might be the hardest but

    also the most important or compelling element of curriculum planning (Brummelen

    2002). The lessons that consist the unit plan must be coherent to one another as it focuses

    on a particular theme, and it comes in all shapes and sizes. The specifics of a unit plan

    depends on the teacher making it. The chapter displayed nine steps in planning classroom

    units. These steps mentioned in the book does not have to be exactly in order because

    there are various ways a teacher can plan a unit, however these are the steps that teachers

    must consider in planning or creating unit plans. I am still a student and making lesson

    plans and unit plans are still new to me and something that I still need to practice. I

    thought it would not really be complicated and tough to create a unit plan because I never

    thought making lesson plans was that arduous. However, when I started making one in
    STEPPING STONES CH. 7 REFLECTION 3

    our Instructional Alignment class, my thoughts and assumptions were proven wrong.

    Creating a lesson plan is tough because you not only plan what to teach to your students

    but every part should be connected to one another. In the same way, creating unit plans is

    much difficult because you have to create lesson plans for the whole week, month, or

    year and just like a single lesson plan, it has to be connected to the other lesson plans in

    the unit. If there is but one thing that I have learned in making lesson plans and units

    plans, it is relevance. And the sureness of my lesson plan or unit plans relevance can

    only be made if I know my own focus and intent in teaching the lessons. One of the intent

    of a teacher is allowing the students to see the connection and importance of the biblical

    principles with the subject lessons. In the book, the chapter has a figure of an example on

    relating a Christian worldview for a unit theme. This, I believe is very important, but

    might be overlooked. As a future teacher and a current student, I must practice on

    connecting a Christian worldview on the subjects that I plan to teach.


    STEPPING STONES CH. 7 REFLECTION 4

    Reference

    Van Brummelen, H. (2002), Planning Classroom Units, In Steppingstones to Curriculum

    (Second ed., pp. 167-198), Colorado: Purposeful Design Publications.

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