A unit of work in secondary school mathematics generally lasts 4 to 5 weeks, and includes about 10to 12 lessons. In most courses, there are 9 or 10 units of work per year -- approximately one per month. I hope that your unit planning assignment will get you started planning for a unit of work that you will actually be teaching for your long practicum!
Each of your sponsoring teachers will have slightly different requirements for unit planning, and for your practicum, you will need to work with those individual requirements.
For this course, I am most interested in seeing your background thinking and planning for designing the unit. I want to see that you can:
•answer the question "why are we learning this?";
•make connections for yourself and your students with the history, uses, and beauty of this topic;
•think deeply about the pedagogy of this topic and the possibilities for teaching it;
•work out formal and informal ways of assessing students' progress in learning this topic;
•design a large or small student mathematics project that will be part of the unit.
You will also need to think out the sequencing of your 10-12 lessons and outline this in a chart.
In planning a complete unit for your practicum, you will need to write a lesson plan for each of the lessons. For our class purposes, I am only asking you for one lesson plan -- but this should be for an especially-inspiring, creative and actively engaging lesson that does not follow the traditional pattern of lecture/exercises/homework. (I expect that some but not all of your lessons in the unit will follow that traditional pattern -- but I would like to see your plan for one that does not!)
Please download the template linked here to write up your unit plan, and stick closely to the suggested word counts for each section. You will see that you are asked to produce short paragraphs for each section, but I will expect them to be well-researched and well-thought out.
Hope you enjoy the process, and the teaching!
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