Class Outline: January 25, 2005 (#2)
Topic: Backward Planning and the Reflective Teaching Cycle

4:20 - 4:50	professional development snapshots: Kendel, Lava, and Janita
4:50 - 5:35	interactive presentation: backward planning
5:35 - 6:15	small group activity: Develop a backward design plan from in-class handout
6:15 - 6:45	report back to whole group & discuss
6:45 - 6: 50	minute paper

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Important Announcement! Bring to class next week any standards and benchmarks which pertain to your teaching (i.e. state, district, grade level).

• A process for developing thematic units via backwards planning: http://home.earthlink.net/~sinetag/bp/Pages/bpframework.html
• Steps in building a unit with backwards planning: http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/stanfillj/workshops/pbl/backwards_planning.htm
• A newsletter tying in backwards planning with No Child Left Behind: http://www.knowledgenetwork.ca/know_tool/bctf/workshops/pdfs/NCLB_2.pdf