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Developing Your Own Exemplary Plans
Effective classroom instruction requires thoughtful planning. Unit plans on this Web site were developed by teachers who used a "backward design" process to plan their units when they participated in the Intel® Teach to the Future program. While most instructional planning begins with learning experiences and instruction, "backward design" (Wiggins, McTighe,1998) starts with identifying desired results and determining acceptable evidence of understanding before planning teaching and learning activities. Read more ›
You can use the collection of unit and project plans as models for developing your own instructional plan. The plans demonstrate the principles of backward design, and present a consistent set of important features from curriculum framing questions to assessment.
Unit plan design template ›
This template will help guide your efforts with "backward design" of your own unit plan. Though the guide is a linear outline, planning is an iterative process. As you plan, you will want to return to earlier steps and revise activities, assessments, and curriculum-framing questions until you have an "exemplary" unit plan.
Unit plan evaluation guide ›
Assess and refine your plan using this set of prompts for a self-guided review. It will help you evaluate your decisions about objectives, processes, and the application of technology.
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