E33S6 Today we take a deep dive in unit goals. Goals are the glue of an amazing unit. As such, goals should be clearly defined and decided upon before diving into a unit. Listen to find out more about essential questions, skills, standards and big ideas as unit end goals.

Show Notes

Reminder, this is the last episode before we go on winter recess. Our projected date to resume is January 18th. In the mean time, catch up on past episodes!

Below is the show's time

0:00 Intro

0:45 Episode introduction and welcome

1:48 Winter Recess reminder

2:10 Shout outs

4:30 Wins and Fails Segment

10:50 Let's get this party (errr...episode) started!

11:46 Goals as the heart of backwards planning

15:20 grade level teams making end-goal decisions

16:40 Essential questions

18:17 Examples of Essential Questions and big ideas

24:31 Skills and end goals

30:02 Standards

35:03 Big Ideas

44:24 Episode wrap up

45:54 Outro

Resources:

My grade level's Animal unit plans. You can look at the way we have crafted our essential questions: Click here to see our Animal unit.

Carrie Baughcum @HeckAwesome

Carrie's Youtube channel: click here You will want to check out Carrie's channel. She has a lot of great content on sketchnoting, but other topics as well (gaming, animation, etc.).

Carrie's website: Click here.

Understanding by Design Edition 2 by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe Click here to learn more about the book.

Contact information:

Twitter: @TamiJ123

email: [email protected]

Podcast show notes & to listen online:

Time to Teach Website

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Notes From A First Grade Classroom

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