It's August and soon it will be time to say farewell to summer. August also means it's time to start thinking about how this school year will go and what could be improved from last year. Energized from a summer of relaxation and rejuvenation, I am ready to tackle the year and make this year the best one yet! Glancing over the unit plans from last semester, I fight the urge to scrape everything and start from scratch. Completely unrealistic, I settle for a more reasonable goal: changing maybe one or two units, tweaking two, and leaving two as are. Even still, where to begin? I have found a system that works for me to help me meet my goals without taking weeks to accomplish. Here are my ten steps to rewriting your units before the semester begins.
The Teacher Rewrite’s Purpose
Want to see what a war zone of a teacher in the midst of curriculum writing looks like? Imagine a scattered mess of handouts, binders, magazine tear-outs, calendars, textbooks, novels, and notes. Notice the trail of stray highlighter streaks on a poor page careless enough to stray from the pile as its owner frantically marks up yet another idea. Don't mind the scribbles on ten different notes and pages written in a code not even the author can remember. Glance over the to-do-list with a hundred items, all written in earnest yet most never achieved because there is just not enough time in a semester.
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