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= = = UNIT PLANNING  =

Planning is an essential part of the process of effective teaching-learning-assessment - with there being an increasing overlap between the 3 parts so that they are becoming indistinguishable. Note though that TEACHING is the driving factor and advanced planning, such as Unit Planning, are mandatory for professional efforts and development within the classroom and for administrators constructing staff development workshops.

Unit Planning provides practitioners with a big picture view of instruction and helps us to deliver with a greater focus on concepts and real world topic relevance instead of with a myopic view that shifts delivery and assessment towards the regurgitation of content and facts.

Big Picture Unit Planning further ensures that National Goals begin to be decidedly drawn into classrooms so that the production of the skills that have been decided as core for each citizen through national discourse begin to be addressed by the classroom teacher. There is then active participation in the development of the democracy and the citizenry by every day citizens.

Unit planning presents the practitioner a unique opportunity for Reflection-before-Action and helps one to also specifically target peculiar student and contextual traits so that instruction becomes more effective, meaningful and purposeful.

Unit planning within school departments can standardize instruction and provide a useful archive of materials that teachers can continue to build and to draw upon.