2020 Virtual Conference

Planning Units Rather Than Lessons 

11-06-2020 13:21:33

After many years of determining which text book section lands on which day, the presenter was inspired by workshops utilizing problem-solving “menus,” Phil Daro’s 2013 talk about “grain size,” and backward design principles to rethink course planning. Unit planning successes, challenges, and lessons learned will be shared.

One more thing I thought about after we finished, regarding the question of finding good tasks. Often the juicier tasks that are typically at the end of homework sets have the makings of good tasks. They often need to have lots of scaffolding removed, but they tend to target bigger ideas and be more interesting in their context and questions.

Feel free to contact me if you like: debbieo@mec-math.org

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11-06-2020 14:57:29

This session articulated so many things about the shift I've been trying to make in my planning and prep for the past few years. I'm hoping both the remember the language found in here to articulate to my colleagues why I'm doing things different than they are, and also I'm hoping your framing might help make this planning easier by helping me build my framework in a meaningful, effective way, so I can actually see the course I envision in action instead of running out of steam in the process.

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