Tools for Developing Unit Overview Sheets
Developing unit overview sheets is NOT a complicated process. In fact, session presenter Bill Ferriter argues that your learning team should be able to develop a draft of a unit overview sheet in about 80 minutes as long as you remember that perfection is not the goal and that you can (and should) polish a unit overview sheet over time. Here are some simple tools that can help you to develop unit overview sheets.
Identifying Essential Learning Targets: Choosing a small handful of essential outcomes for a unit of study ISN'T something that teachers do based on nothing more than the content that they LIKE to teach. Instead, choosing essential outcomes requires an understanding of the kids in your school and the structure of your curriculum. This handout presents a series of questions teams should ask when trying to decide whether or not an outcome is really essential.
Converting Learning Standards into I Can Statements: Once you've identified a small handful of essential outcomes for a unit of study, you need to rewrite them into student-friendly language. This document will show you how.
Student Data Tracking Tools
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Oftentimes, we forget that formative assessment built around essential learning targets isn't JUST about getting information that teachers can act on. Formative assessment information can be just as valuable to students, who can develop a more sophisticated sense of what they have mastered and what they are still struggling to master. To make this work more doable, North Carolina first grade teacher Andrea Knight developed a series of graphing templates for her students to complete as a part of their data notebooks. Samples of three of those templates are linked above. You can read more about Ms. Knight's processhere on her blog. You can purchase her templateshere on her Teachers Pay Teachers page.
from Digitally Speaking
http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Using%20Unit%20Overview%20Sheets%20in%20a%20PLC
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