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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Debby,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I think Unit then Frame is a good plan. Frame will be easy after putting initial effort into Unit.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">If your teachers are in Virginia, the SOL Curriculum Framework for each content area is an excellent resource for creating Unit Organizers. Taking the time to develop a Unit Organizer from the framework really helps teachers delve into the standard to develop an understanding of the critical content they are expected to teach - and what they are to place in the "bubbles" of the organizer. Using the Framework and the Assessment Blueprint will help teachers develop Unit Self-Test Questions and the Unit Relationships section of the organizer. The Framework will also give details for an Expanded Unit Map that, even if not shared with students, can be kept by the teacher as a unit-at-a-glance picture of what they are required to cover.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Once teachers learn the Frame, they can go into more depth with critical pieces of content.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">In my experience, developing Unit Organizers is essential to planning in all content areas, but especially in social studies and science. At the secondary level, they really help to focus attention on the critical content to be taught. This is essential for teachers during planning, and they can be effective study guides for students. At the elementary level, so much time and energy is put into planning and teaching language arts and math that science and social studies are often after-thoughts. By developing Unit Organizers for these two subjects and revising/using them year-to-year, teachers can easily see the critical content they need to teach to help when planning time is minimal. Unit Organizers can usually be made simple enough for students with some reading and spelling skills to co-create, and sending the organizers home to parents at any grade can help them understand what their children are learning to guide the work they do at home.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div>I<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> taught both of these routines to my preservice university students. They did final projects developing one or two Unit Organizers, then one or two Frames detailing critical content components. I always asked the elementary teachers to focus
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on social studies or science. My students always remarked about how helpful Unit and Frame were in helping them understand what they needed to teach and giving them an instructional routine to introduce the information.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hope this helps!<br></span>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 1:11 PM debby.mossburg--- via Simtrainer-l <<a href="mailto:simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu">simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="color:black;font:12pt Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am working with a teacher who is finishing up her requirements to become a CE PDer and is working on developing her Professional Learning Plan.
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<div>Her audience is first-year teachers in her district and she's proposed beginning with the Unit Organizer Routine during the beginning of the year PD days and following up with the Framing Routine mid-year. </div>
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<div>I'd love to hear about your experience with new teachers and your thoughts about this sequence. It's been a while since I worked with new teachers, and I wonder if they are familiar enough with their curriculum to start off with the Unit Organizer. On the other hand, it might turn out to be a great way to help them plan from the start. Would you endorse UO first & then FRAME, or the other way around? </div>
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<div>Thanks so much for your thoughts,</div>
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<div>Debby Mossburg</div>
<div>Virginia CE PDer, semi-retired :-)</div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>Patricia Parrott, M.Ed.</b><br></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Co-Teaching Initiative Consultant<br></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="mailto:vdoe.coteach@gmail.com" target="_blank">vdoe.coteach@gmail.com</a><br><i><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><br></span></i></span></div><div><i><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">"You can count the seeds in an apple, but you can't count the apples in a seed. When you teach, you never know how many lives you will influence -- you are te</span><span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">aching for eter</span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">nity."<br></span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align:right"><i><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><span><span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">- Karen Jensen</span><br></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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