The unit plan doctors had their visiting hours today… and speaking of visiting hours, here’s the poster from the 1982 movie Visiting Hours (Tagline: There is no known cure… for MURDER), a film whose VHS box I loved but that I’ve still never seen:
OK, where was I? Oh yes, unit planning.
Shep and I hope the conversations were fruitful and we encourage you to email us with questions or thoughts as you work on your plan over the next week. A reminder that the UBD unit planning template and the first two lessons of your unit are due via email to both your SA and FA on or before Monday, 7 December 2009.
Seeing as assessment is a key piece of any teaching endeavour, I’ve included a link to the BC Ministry of Education’s Performance Standards documents. According to the Ministry website:
“The BC Performance Standards have been developed for voluntary use in BC schools. They describe the professional judgments of a significant number of BC educators about standards and expectations…
The standards focus exclusively on performance assessment. In performance assessment students are asked to apply the skills and concepts they have learned to complete complex, realistic tasks. This type of assessment supports a criterion-referenced approach to evaluation and enables teachers, students, and parents to compare student performance to provincial standards.
The BC Performance Standards are intended as a resource to support ongoing instruction and assessment.”
In these PS documents, you will find rubrics for assessment and sample tasks with marked pieces of work in the following areas of learning:
- Reading
- Writing
- Numeracy
- Social Responsibility
- Information and Communications Technology Integration
- Healthy Living
Good hunting (that’s for all you BSG fans out there!)
– Lawrence