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Five-Step Unit-Planning Template


Directions: Teams use this template to backward plan their units of instruction, including specific lessons and
assessments.

Critical Question 1: What do we want students to know and be able to do?


Step 1: Identify the essential or power standards and the supporting standards for the unit.
Essential standards taught in this unit:

Supporting standards taught in this unit:

Critical Question 2: How do we know if they have learned it? What evidence will tell us whether they have
met the standards by the end of the unit?
Step 2: Discuss evidence of the end in mind (end-of-unit measure)—How will the team know if students
achieve these standards? What type of task could students perform or complete by the end of the unit to
show achievement? With what level of proficiency should students perform it? And what type of problem
or text (stimulus) should students receive? (Note: Use released items from high-stakes tests and look at
prior and subsequent grade levels to gain insight about the types of tasks the team should expect students
to perform and the stimuli [problems, text, and so on] students will receive.)

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Step 3: Share the specific learning targets (bite-size pieces of learning) that lead to students’ accomplish-
ing the unit goals. Be sure to identify the big ideas emphasized in the unit. (Note: Not everything is written
in the standards—teams should use their professional judgment to identify the learning targets. Read
between the lines of the standards’ language.)
Learning Targets Assessment Items
What should students know? Big idea:
(Information, definitions, pro-
cesses, concepts, and main ideas
that students must know or
understand)

What should students be able


to do?
(Performances, skills, or actions
that students must do or
demonstrate)

What academic language or


vocabulary should students
acquire and use?

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Step 4: Where in the unit does it make sense to see if our students are learning what we are teaching?
What evidence will we collect along the way about the smaller pieces of learning? (Formative assessment)
• Identify specific targets the team will commonly assess formatively. Team members should collectively
monitor learning targets that are typically challenging for students.
• Identify or develop brief but aligned assessment items that will provide usable evidence to the team
about the students’ understanding and skill. Team members should discuss the level of proficiency they
would expect for the assessment items.
Step 5: Plan the sequence of instruction and the timing for common formative assessments—As the team
designs the unit plan, it should include the quality instructional practices that support high levels of student
learning (What best instructional practices or strategies will we embed in this unit?).
Sequential Plan for Providing Unit Instruction and Monitoring Learning
Embedded Assessment
Lessons or Activities
Checkpoints
Days (Progression) (What learning targets will we
(What are the formative and sum-
teach? How will we teach them?)
mative assessment checkpoints?)

Notes:

Source: Adapted from Bailey, K., & Jakicic, C. (2019). Make it happen: Coaching with the four critical questions of PLCs at
Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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