I love writing curriculum, read my profile! Designing, linking, assessing, and planning are all words that excite me. The journey for me is like a large puzzle. Before I design lessons I always have a guide that focuses on the standards I'm aiming for my students to master.
The guide is driven by state/national standards along with community needs. The contruction of a guide begins with printing and cutting the standards into strips and laying them out on a large table. This process allows me to arrange them into "like" learning groups. These groups then morph into units. Once I have units with standards I start to look at the topics or major themes within each unit for lesson ideas. The question I frequently ask myself during this process is what 2 or 3 standards may be grouped together for a lesson or are relevant to each other? It is from here that my planning guide is created. A future post will cover more about how I then design student learning objectives, lessons and assessments using the planning guide, follow me to receive updates!
Below is a copy of my Child Development Planning Guide. Please note that this guide is based on a full years curriculum, if you opt to use this guide for a semester class you will need to modify. You can purchase lesson's I have designed for this course by clicking the links on the document.
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How do you create your planning guides?
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