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When asked if I have a Unit Plan template, I wrote.....

Honestly, no.

Planning for me is looking at the Overall Expectations or Essential Learnings I need the students to demonstrate at the end of the course and then planning backwards. What are my teaching points to get to that end goal (teaching points can often be found in the Specific Expectations because they can serve as the Success Criteria for the Rubric).

I would then divide up the semester by some type of thematic structure that would allow me to revisit the Overall Expectations as I worked through the semester, giving students multiple opportunities to demonstrate their learning and for me to use the feedback to plan their next learning.

Because I imagine my class to be activity based (inquiry-based, project-based, or problem-based), my planning would be a series of provocations to promote engagement, continuous conferencing to check on learning and progress, and ongoing mini-lessons to support the learner where they are.

My 'unit plan' would be a list of skills or knowledge to introduce to the students, but with no timeline, but rather an order to which comes first because it builds towards the second. 

In the end, I guess my 'unit plan template' would resemble an inquiry model

• Creating questions of their own
• Obtaining supporting evidence to answer the question(s)
• Explaining the evidence collected
• Connecting the explanation to the knowledge obtained from the investigative process
• Creating an argument and justification for the explanation
• Sharing the results  (wikipedia)

This probably doesn't help you. Sorry about that. 

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