Planning

Like all professionals - a teacher must be organised and prepared. Students, parents and the school administration expects the teacher to prepare lesson plans, unit plans and assessment plans.
 * What is Teacher Planning?**

Planning is vital for a number of reasons:
 * Why is Planning important?**
 * 1) To plan how the curriculum or "essential learnings" needs to be addressed
 * 2) To plan how to address the needs of the individual learner
 * 3) To help with classroom management practices.

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 * Lesson Plan Templates**:

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 * Unit Plan Templates**:

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 * Curriculum Mapping:**

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Curriculum maps are valuable planning tools for teachers, helping them to begin with the end in mind and chart a course for the year. Typically, annual curriculum maps are organized by month or marking period and provide an overview of: ====== · the enduring understandings and overarching goals · the standards-based essential skills and concepts · the methods of assessment that the teacher and students will be working on throughout the year (e.g., major writing assignments, projects, performances) · the major content resources Unit curriculum maps include all of the above with the following additions: · the unit’s theme, essential question(s), and enduring understandings · more detailed notes on the formative and summative assessments to be used throughout the unit · the strategies and best practices used to explicitly teach the standards-based essential skills and concepts · a list of the multi-genre resources that will be used throughout the unit (Source: []) Four Term Cu rriculum Mapping Document: Ten Month Planning Calendar: 20 Week Curriculum Map: []
 * Mapping Resources:**