Chapter 7 outline

Titles: Planning classroom units

1. Here we can see 9 steps from chapter 7 to make effective units.

1. Determine the significance and relevance of a topic.
2. Brainstorm ideas, possibly using a planning chart.
3. Formulate a unit focus and intents.
- A thematic statement describes the overall approach that will frame your unit's

teaching and learning. It describes your overall goals. In particular, the

statement includes
The basic values, dispositions, and commitments that you want to foster
The enduring understandings, major concepts, and key skills that you want

students to acquire
4. Design and choose suitable learning activities.
5. Review and incorporate linkages with government-mandated standards and

outcomes.
6. Plan a schedule.
7. Select your resources.
8. Plan student assessment.
9. Review the effectiveness of your unit.

Chapter 7 notes:

A unit is a portion of the curriculum that focuses on a particular theme. Unit plan is the

bigger picture or the goal of our lesson which we want our learners to be as a result of our

instruction, and make learners able to do using different kinds of learning standards according to

instruction. We cannot plan good lesson plan without setting the goal or destination, because if
we do not know the purpose of teaching lesson day by day then, the lesson will go out of track.

That is why unit plan is important to direct the lesson to achieve the goal. Students can

experience the advantages of both integrated and subject-focused curriculums if teachers plan

their units to be integral units. Integral means that the unit forms a unity with a clearly focused

theme. It is possible to have effective integral units whose content embraces one, two, or many

subject fields. To reach the goal we need to plan to make effective units using different kinds of

styles or methods. In the unit plan we can use the other sources to make effective units, but we

need to figure out that the sources match, and help to reach our goal or not. If we used that

sources which do not related, and do not fit with ideas then, its better not to use.

Reflection

In this chapter, we can see 9 steps to make unit plan effective. Before I read this chapter I

did not know how to design and close the learning activities. Mostly in the lesson plan, I always

put the review, and closing prayer inside closing the lesson column but now I learned that that is

not good way to close the lesson. At the end of the lesson closing activity is important because

Assessment at that point will help you see whether the activity can be used to meet your

learning outcome(s), or will show you that you need to revise the activity. It mean I need to

create that kinds of assessment which covers my objectives which I set for the lesson. From the

assessment I am not just reaching my goal which I set but also evaluating my students as well.

What I have learned is that we also need to design closing learning activities in a proper way so

teacher can foster students to learn more through the activities.