standard 7: "the odyssey unit plan"
Performances: The teacher plans how to achieve each student’s learning goals, choosing appropriate strategies and accommodations, resources, and materials to differentiate instruction for individuals and groups of learners.
Essential Knowledge: The teacher knows a range of evidence-based instructional strategies, resources, and technological tools and how to use them effectively to plan instruction that meets diverse learning needs.
Critical Disposition: The teacher takes professional responsibility to use short-term and long-term planning as a means of assuring student learning
Planning is perhaps one the most challenging aspects of effective teaching. Once teachers gain their experience and become comfortable with their teaching styles, more often than not, teachers will continuously teach the same lessons, year after year, and eventually become complacent in their planning.
Today’s students are not the same students from 20 years ago and it has become imperative that teachers now need to tailor their teaching to meet the needs of today’s youth, not the other way around. Because of this trend, planning becomes an integral part of the educator’s roles and responsibilities. By incorporating diverse instructional techniques and learning strategies, teachers are more prepared to deal with the short attentions spans of today’s students caused by the technological wiring of the generation.
The Odyssey Lesson Sequence Calendar provides 7 weeks of lessons that target differentiated instructional teaching and various forms of formative and summative assessments used to assess student learning and understanding. The lessons in the calendar also shows that students will need to demonstrate technological proficiency as well as effective communication through final power point presentations with topics of their choosing.
The content area is covered effectively through the use of independent and collaborative work and demonstrates the teacher’s knowledge of the content area and how to appropriately and effectively address the content standards.
Today’s students are not the same students from 20 years ago and it has become imperative that teachers now need to tailor their teaching to meet the needs of today’s youth, not the other way around. Because of this trend, planning becomes an integral part of the educator’s roles and responsibilities. By incorporating diverse instructional techniques and learning strategies, teachers are more prepared to deal with the short attentions spans of today’s students caused by the technological wiring of the generation.
The Odyssey Lesson Sequence Calendar provides 7 weeks of lessons that target differentiated instructional teaching and various forms of formative and summative assessments used to assess student learning and understanding. The lessons in the calendar also shows that students will need to demonstrate technological proficiency as well as effective communication through final power point presentations with topics of their choosing.
The content area is covered effectively through the use of independent and collaborative work and demonstrates the teacher’s knowledge of the content area and how to appropriately and effectively address the content standards.
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