This Unit of Work is to include an overview plan for a unit, one detailed lesson plan, reference to one diagnostic, one formative and one summative assessment task, a clear orientation to selected curriculum (curriculum document, learning area, learning level), and an overarching justification and illustration of pedagogical and curricular considerations.
Overview plan for the Unit
It is recommended that this Unit has a History 7-10 focus, and uses one of the depth studies as its focus.
In the overview of the unit (Unit Planner) you may wish to refer to the Unit Plan: Industrial Revolution (Sarah Clare) on the LMS your plan should include:
• Either an essential question or the key inquiry question from AusVels
• Use clear learning intentions throughout, for example Sarah use the KUD framework at the start of the unit (What the students will Know, Understand Do) and a learning intention for each lesson or group of lessons.
• Desired results based on AusVels achievement standards for the current, year below and year above.
• The headings used in the sample unit plan are good but feel free to come up with one that best works for you – but remember you will need the kind of detail in the sample plan.
One detailed lesson plan:
The lesson plan should be detailed enough to allow another teacher to follow the plan and deliver a quality outcome. Again I have provided a sample this time for VCE English (the content is not important bit the structure is!). The lesson plan should show exactly what Historical skills and knowledge the students will achieve by the end of the lesson. This would be a good place to put your formative assessment task.
I would prefer this to be diagnostic at the start of the unit to find out what skills and knowledge the students already possess in this study area. We will discuss a range of possible diagnostic skills in the intensive.
I will discuss the use of formative assessment with you in the intensive, you may choose one formative assessment task or to use embedded formative assessment whereby you incorporate a number of smaller tasks you use throughout a lesson to check students understanding and thinking and build from there.
